The Legend of Princess Kinga

The mine tunnels are scattered with statues carved from salt and amazingly they were all made from mine workers, not professional artists! The detail on some of them is just amazing. These statues depict the legend of Princess Kinga which goes like this: The Hungarian princess Kinga was to marry the sovereign of Krakow. She wanted to bring a wealthy gift for her fiancé. As the people in Poland had everything except salt, she asked her father for a salt mine as adowry, which he provided. She threw one of her rings into a salt mine of her father and travelled to Poland. Near Krakow, in Wieliczka she told the people to dig a deep pit. The miners found salt, and enclosed in the first piece of salt they mined was the ring of Kinga. Our guide told us the story and finished it with...believe what you like. :)