{"id":31250,"date":"2016-04-19T20:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/adventure-underground-the-salt-mines-around-bogota\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T18:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T23:36:40","slug":"adventure-underground-the-salt-mines-around-bogota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/en\/adventure-underground-the-salt-mines-around-bogota\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure underground: the salt mines around Bogot\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A city break to Bogot\u00e1 is made extra fun by all the wonderful things to see and do around this metropolis. By bus you can easily take a day trip to wondrous natural beauty or cute villages. And, thus, to salt mines. There are two close to the city: Zipaquir\u00e1 and Nemoc\u00f3n. Both with their own character. To give you an insight into the world of Colombian salt, today I’m taking you deep underground: into the salt mine!<\/p>\n

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The salt cathedral of Zipaquir\u00e1<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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In Zipaquir\u00e1, a town 50 kilometers north of Bogot\u00e1, you will find an underground salt cathedral. Only three such salt cathedrals exist worldwide: one in Colombia, the other two in Poland. In this salt mine, among the beautiful mountains near Bogot\u00e1, two cathedrals were created. At the beginning of the twentieth century, miners carved out the first one, which was inaugurated in 1954, only to be permanently closed for safety reasons in 1990. Between 1991 and 1995, some 250,000 pounds of salt were removed to carve out the new and current underground shrine, now considered one of the most important monuments in Colombia. The cathedral has a length of 75 meters, is 18 meters high and has a capacity of as many as 8,400.<\/p>\n\n\t\t