The Underground Tourist Route in Sandomierz — 470 metres of merchants' cellars

The Underground Tourist Route is one of the great attractions of Sandomierz, leading through a network of former merchants' cellars and storerooms cut into the loess beneath the old town. The route runs about 470 metres and reaches a maximum of some 12 metres beneath the market square. The cellars were dug from the Middle Ages onwards as goods stores and in time threatened to bring the town down on itself, which led to their stabilisation and their joining into a single route, opened to visitors in 1977. A visit takes about 45 minutes and is only possible with a guide, who tells the legends and anecdotes attached to the individual vaults, including the famous story of Halszka of Rogów.

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Other sights in Sandomierz

Straight-line distances from „The Underground Tourist Route" — calculated from real coordinates. By road it is often further.

The market square and town hallThe broad market square of the old town, about 110 by 120 metres, with a Gothic-Renaissanc

~48 m as the crow flies

The Opatów GateA Gothic town gate from the second half of the 14th century, the only survivor of Sandomie

~127 m as the crow flies

The cathedral basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryA Gothic cathedral founded by Casimir the Great in 1360–1382, with 15th-century Byzantine-

~248 m as the crow flies

St James's ChurchOne of the oldest brick churches in Poland, raised by the Dominicans between 1226 and 1250

~319 m as the crow flies

The Royal CastleThe former royal castle at about 159 m a.s.l. above the Vistula, today the seat of the Dis

~745 m as the crow flies

Queen Jadwiga's RavineA picturesque loess ravine right by the old town, just under half a kilometre long and up

~815 m as the crow flies

The Pepper HillsA nature reserve on hills of Precambrian shale more than 500 million years old, famous for

~2,4 km as the crow flies

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