Cardona: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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EUR 6 - 198 Vilar Rural de Cardona
 Set in the heart of Catalunya and with views of a Medieval Castle, this hotel is designed in a village manner with its own animal farm and vegetable g… MoreEUR 90 - 216 Parador de Cardona
 With a magical setting inside a 9th-century castle and boasting a 2nd-century tower, this Parador is straight out of fairytale and has panoramic views… MoreEUR 70 - 178 Bremon
 Set in the historical centre of Cardona, a town rich in cultural and natural heritage, Bremon ´s spacious rooms, its large sound-proofed windows… More | ||||||||||||||||||
Cardona: Guide
For the municipality in the Philippines, see Cardona, Rizal
Cardona is a town ìn Catalonia, Spain, in the Barcelona (province)|province of Barcelona; about 90 km northwest of the city of Barcelona, on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardoner, a branch of the Llobregat.
Cardona is a picturesque town, with a citadel named the Castle of Cardona set high on a hill, and the 14th-century Romanesque Church of St. Vincenç. It is celebrated for the extensive deposit of rock salt in its vicinity. 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.
Local festivals
Caramelles: The Sunday of Passover
Mercat de la ganga: The first Sunday of February
Fira de Pentecostés: The first Sunday of June
Fira de la Llenega: The last Sunday of October
Festa Major: The second last weekend in September
Demography
Notes
The movie, Chimes at Midnight, by Orson Welles was filmed at the castle in Cardona.
The portico of the Church of St. Vincenç in Cardona was once covered with murals. Fragments of these "painted vaults" were restored in 1960 and are now displayed at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona.
References
Pedrosa, Andreu (2001). The Castle of Cardona. Sant Vincenç de Castellet: Farell. ISBN 84-930418-8-2
Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya, Barcelona:Caixa de Catalunya. ISBN 84-87135-01-3 (Spanish). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).
External links
(in Catalan)
(National Art Museum of Catalonia)
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