Austria's oldest working salt mine and one of the great war stories of the 20th century. Beneath the wooded slopes of the Sandling, kilometres of galleries cut into rock salt were used by the Nazis to store thousands of artworks looted from museums and Jewish collectors across Europe — and saved at the very end of the war by local miners who refused orders to blow up the mine and its contents.
The guided tour takes you deep into the mountain on a small train, then on foot through chambers cooled by their own salt-bearing rock, with film, photographs, and replicas explaining the wartime story. The mine itself remains a working operation. Tours run several times daily from spring to autumn; warm clothing supplied. Allow two hours.