Cardona, Spain

Cardona
Municipality
Cardona from the air
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 41°54′49″N 1°40′50″E / 41.91361°N 1.68056°E / 41.91361; 1.68056
Country	Spain
Community	Catalonia
Province	Barcelona
Comarca	Bages
Government
• Mayor	Ferran Estruch Torrents (2015)
Area
• Total	66.7 km2 (25.8 sq mi)
Elevation	506 m (1,660 ft)
Population (2014)
• Total	4,921
• Density	74/km2 (190/sq mi)
Website	www.cardona.cat

Cardona is a town ìn Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona; about 90 km (56 mi) northwest of the city of Barcelona, on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardoner, 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.

The movie Chimes at Midnight, by Orson Welles, was filmed at the castle in Cardona.