a Life, an Adventure

It’s difficult to describe my trip to Poland in November 2013 with words. Great emotions in just one week. It wasn’t my longest trip but certainly the most intense. I was in the land of Pope Wojtyla with 3 friends and in day after landing in Krakow, we decided to visit the city and its beautiful cathedral that amazes for its extension. At lunch time, we go in a small restaurant with typical appearance. We're a little skeptical because we are used to Italian food, and, instead, we are pleasantly contradicted. Polish food is great and the typical soup served in a bread is really good. I still don’t understand how a warm broth can stay in a bread without drain. The next day we decided to visit the salt mines of Wieliczka which are among the oldest in Europe. Upon entering, we take an elevator and moving downwards. Every times, to the little plastic windows, you can see the numbers that indicate the depth . I had the sensetion of being in a small time machine. The elevator stops and on the first wall we see I read -327. They are the meters achieved in depth, but it seems to me that that number represents the years routes back in time. We begin to walk into the beautiful tunnels dug in the salt, and, listening the words of the guide, I beginning to imagine the people who have lived and built for years the impressive architecture with humble and simple tools. Suddenly, at the end of the galleries, we lean out by a railing projected in the dark. A loud noise, anticipates the most majestic spectacle that ever I have seen! Thousands of lights reveal a real immense cathedral carved into the rock! It's like being into Indiana Jones movies and almost I don’t believe in that I see! Statues and altars entirely sculpted with a precision of great artists. I read on a plaque, that the structure was built in 80 years and next are carved the names of many miners who participated to buil it. I'm really ecstatic and stunned. I didn’t know the mines of Wieliczka but now they know that they exist and that they are one of the highest human celebration by a creativity point of view and they are full of mysticism and sacredness.