Salt Cathedral

The Salt Church of Colombia is located 50 km north of Bogota and is one of Colombia's famous tourist destinations. The town is beautiful and the river is clear. In the 1990s, the local government closed the salt mine for safety reasons. In fact, it was originally used by miners to pray for blessings while working underground, and then continued to expand until now to a dizzying degree. And also applied for the eighth wonder of the world, but did not finalize. The cathedral is below 180 meters above the surface, which is spectacular.

Bogota Salitre takes Alianza bus to Zipaquirá and walks about 20 minutes. There are three packages for tickets, the cheapest 98,000 Colombian pesos, equivalent to RMB 175, which belongs to the more expensive attractions of the country. However, there is a reputation for the first win of the country. Very large underground caves and rock salt pits, divided into religious and commercial areas, the basic package includes a guide, Chinese optional. The Rock Salt Church is a history of blood and tears of the Indians of the Gothic Kingdom. During the Spanish colonization, they were forced to dig salt mines underground, and they were tired and tired and dead. They could only make altars and churches underground as spiritual sustenance.

Colombia | The world's most magical underground salt church The world's most "special" church: built 200 meters underground, or built with salt The Roman Catholic Church called salt cathedral of zipaquirá (Sipakira Salt Cathedral) is a salt mine built 200 meters below the ground in the mountains. The entire church is made of black salt rock, and its walls are not as regular as traditional churches, but undulating and adding a rough feeling. The church is supported by 15 huge square columns, which are fixed with outlines, which are very shocking! All you can see in the church is salt, and there are rocks, gold, crystals, emeralds and other gemstones in the original minerals, you can see it carefully. The kneeling mats used to pray before the altar cross look like marble, but they are also made of salt, and you can see very obvious crystals. Location: The church is located in the town of Sipagira, 50 kilometers north of Bogota, the first miracle of Colombia's national treasure. Tickets: 50,000 PESO, equivalent to RMB 115. Entering the church is generally followed by a guide, a guide in Spanish or English, about 50 minutes, the ticket includes a light show, and a movie. After that, you can visit it yourself. Tips: This church is still in use, can do mass, wedding and other uses

Colombia's application for the world's new seven miracles failed underground salt church, began with a salt mine explosion, the whole salt mine can reach the deepest 180 meters underground, black lacquered all the mines, the designer directly built hundreds of large and small crosses, angels, altars, And with the biblical famous sentence explained, all made of marble and salt ore! The largest hanging cross is 16 meters high and 10 meters wide. It is not shocking! It is estimated that it is only for tourists to visit, and some of the chairs for worship have almost scattered! Most importantly, I have dark or underground phobias, and I am dying, not hypoxia, but fear!

#Columbia Salt Church # The Indians were beaten here by the whips to pick salt mines, and every day they couldn't wake up, and in order to pray for life, they worked to build a slip of altars in the mine road. Underground environment, dark and humid, depressing with a sense of life heavy, how to say, people still have to have a faith.