THE PREHISTORIC TOUR

To this day, numerous pine splinters (used as torches) which tell of prehistoric mining by the Celts, are to be seen affixed to the tunnel walls of the Hallstatt salt mine. Together with the standard tour of the exhibition mine and its highlights (riding on the mountain railway, entering the mine on the miners’ trolley, descending the shafts on the miners’ ancient slides, the subterranean salt lake) the Hallstatt salt mine also offers interested visitors an unusual special tour: as a part of the Prehistoric Tour one may now view the excavations of previous years and, for the first time, the place where the ‘Man in Salt’ was found.

The journey in time back to the year 1,000 BC offers all manner of valuable information of historical and modern salt mining. The Prehistoric tour lasts around four hours and required reasonably good physical condition.

The Hallstatt exhibition mine is open from April to October and must remain closed during the winter due to weather conditions.
 
 
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