Cardona | |
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 Cardona from the air | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Cardona Location in Catalonia  Cardona Cardona (Spain) | |
| Coordinates: 41°54′49″N 1°40′50″E / 41.91361°N 1.68056°E | |
| Country | Spain |
| Community |  Catalonia |
| Province | Barcelona |
| Comarca | Bages |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ferran Estruch Torrents (2015)[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 66.7 km2 (25.8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 506 m (1,660 ft) |
| Population (2018)[3] | |
| • Total | 4,652 |
| • Density | 70/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
Cardona is a town in the Spanish region of Catalonia, in the province of Barcelona; about 90 km (56 mi) northwest of the city of Barcelona, on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardener, a branch of the Llobregat. To the east of the town, the river has been diverted through a tunnel has been dug through a spur, leaving a loop of dry river bed near the saltmine.
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.[4]
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