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Extract from the Hallein Travel Guides:
Twenty kilometres south of Salzburg and served by regular bus and train services, the market town of
HALLEIN
has been synonymous with the
salt trade
since the sixth century BC. Celts from Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut opened up the salt mines in the hills around Bad Drrnberg, immediately west of Hallein and, apart from a period of abandonment following the departure of the Romans from the region in the fifth century, the mines have been the dominant factor in the town's development ever since. While commercial salt extraction came to an end here in 1989, since then tours of the
Bad Drrnberg show-mine
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read the whole Hallein Travel Guides...
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