Cardona, Spain
Cardona | |
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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 (Catalan pronunciation: [kəɾˈðonə]) 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]
Main sights
- The Castle of Cardona, which is set high on a hill and contains a Parador hotel.
- The 11th-century murals. Fragments of these "painted vaults" were restored in 1960 and are now displayed at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona.[5][6]
- 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.
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
- Aplec de Cardona:[7] 18 September
Notable people
- Serafín Marsal (1862–1956), Paraguayan sculptor
- Berto Romero, comedian.
Notes
The movie Chimes at Midnight, by Orson Welles, was filmed at the castle in Cardona.
Twin towns
Bibliography
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cardona". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 324. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- 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 84-87135-02-1(Catalan).
References
- Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- Statistical Institute of Catalonia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Pedrosa, Andreu (2001). The Castle of Cardona. Sant Vincenç de Castellet: Farell. ISBN 84-930418-8-2
- ^ https://patrimoni.gencat.cat/ca/monuments/content/download/2287/file/Cardona.m.ang.pdf?inline=5268 [bare URL]
- ^ "VIUREM LLIURES O MORTREM". Associació Cultural 18 de setempbre. Archived from the original on February 5, 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2007.
- ^ General Consul of Uruguay in Barcelona (4 February 2010). "Hermanamiento Cardona Catalana y Uruguaya". Archived from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
External links
Media related to Cardona at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Catalan)
- Associació Cultural El Mercat del Blat (Cultural Association of Cardona)
- Associació Cultural 18 de Setembre (Cultural Association of Cardona)
- Government data pages (in Catalan)
- Castell de Cardona (Castle of Cardona)