Cardona

Cardona is a municipality of 4,700 people (2018) about 90 km north of Barcelona in Catalonia.

Understand
Near the town is an extensive deposit of rock salt. The salt forms a mountain mass (called Muntanya de Sal) covered by a thick bed of a reddish-brown clay, and apparently resting on a yellowish-grey sandstone. It is generally more or less translucent, and large masses of it are quite transparent. The hill has been worked like a mine since Roman times; pieces cut from it have been carved by artists in Cardona into images, crucifixes and many articles of an ornamental kind.

Get in
There is no train line near Cardona. The only way to get into town is via the C55

See

 * The Church of Sant Miquel, built in the 11th century and rebuilt in the 14th century in Gothic style. It houses a precious polyptych by Pere Vall, depicting St. Anne, the Virgin and St. Amador, and a 15th-century baptismal font.
 * Cardona Salt Mine: Tours are available at Cardona’s Salt Mountain Cultural Park. Closed on Mondays.
 * Cardona Salt Mine: Tours are available at Cardona’s Salt Mountain Cultural Park. Closed on Mondays.

Sleep
There are not too many options available in Cardona