Word: wieliczka
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...Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made in 1534 from a bison that roamed Central Europe, celebrates a mine dating back to prehistoric times. Offered in the king's name by the mine-owner to his well-organized craft guild, its backbreaking gesture seemingly turns their burdens into the symbol of an elegant...
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