Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, (Cundinamarca, Colombia)




The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is an underground Roman catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres underground in a Halti mountain near the town of Zipaquirá, inCundinamarca,Colombia. It is a very popular torist destination and place of pilgrimage the country
The name "Salt Cathedral" is mostly to attract tourists - while a functioning church that receives as many as 3,000 visitors on Sundays

Salt deposits in Zipaquirá were formed 250 million years ago,




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