Colombia has a lot of salt production. As my fellow history teachers know, salt had more value than gold at many points in history. There are still many functioning salt mines in Colombia. This one was mined for many years; when all of the salt was extracted, the miners took the open spaces and carved a cathedral, complete with 13 stations of the Cross, all 120 ft underground. It was beautiful and artistic. And HUGE.
Services are still held every Sunday, and apparently it is a madhouse during Easter Week. Luckily, it's big enough to fit them all, many times over.
The artists had even taken the time to do beautiful stone work on some of the walls.
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