Nemocon Salt Mine

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Pottery fragments show that the Nemocon Salt Mine had been in use as early as the 4th century BC, but it was the Muisca people who developed the mine into a thriving industry centuries later. From the 19th to 20th centuries, extraction at the mine increased, and workers removed 8 million tons of salt by the time the mine closed in 1968. Today, a guided tour of the mine brings visitors through colorfully-lit passageways, past giant rock salt sculptures, entrancing reflection pools, and an underground chapel. Each of the chambers focuses on a different aspect of salt-mining history, making the country’s second-largest salt mine into an experiential museum.