Cardona, Spain

Cardona
Municipality
Church of Sant Miquel
Coat airms
Cardona Location in Catalonia
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
Govrenment
• Mayor	Ferran Estruch Torrents
Area
• Total	66.38 km2 (25.63 sq mi)
Elevation	506 m (1,660 ft)
Population  (2009)
• Total	5,187
• Density	78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	Offeecial wabsteid

Cardona is a toun ìn Catalonie, Spain, in the province o Barcelona; aboot 90 km (56 mi) northwast o the ceety o Barcelona, on a hill amaist surroondit bi the river Cardoner, a branch o the Llobregat. Tae the east o the toun, the river haes been divertit throu a tunnel haes been dug throu a spur, leavin a loop o dry river bed near the saltmine.

Near the toun is an extensive deposit o rock salt. The salt shapes a muntain mass (cried Muntanya de Sal) covered bi a thick bed o a reddish-broun clay, an apparently restin on a yellaeish-grey saundstane. It is generally mair or less translucent, an muckle masses o it are quite transparent. The hill haes been wirkit lik a mine syne Roman times; pieces cut frae it hae been carvit bi airtists in Cardona intae images, crucifixes an mony airticles o a ornamental kynd.

• The Castle o Cardona, which is set heich on a hill an contains a Parador hotel.
• The 14t-hunderyear Romanesque Kirk o Sant Vincenç.
• The Kirk o Sant Miquel, biggit in the 11t hunderyear an rebuilt in the 14t hunderyear in Gothic style. It hooses a precious polyptych bi Pere Vall, depictin St. Anne, the Virgin an St. Amador, an a 15t-hunderyear baptismal font.

• Caramelles: The Sunday o Passower
• Mercat de la ganga: The first Sunday o Februar
• Fira de Pentecostés: The first Sunday o Juin
• Fira de la Llenega: The last Sunday o October
• Festa Major: The seicont last weekend in September
• Aplec de Cardona Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine: 18 September

The movie Chimes at Midnight, bi Orson Welles, wis filmit at the castle in Cardona.

• Cardona, Uruguay^[1]

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• 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 (Spaingie). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).

1. ↑ General Consul of Uruguay in Barcelona (4 Februar 2010). "Hermanamiento Cardona Catalana y Uruguaya". Archived frae the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 7 Mey 2011.

• Offeecial steid (in Catalan)
• Associació Cultural El Mercat del Blat Archived 2017-10-18 at the Wayback Machine (Cultural Association o Cardona)
• Associació Cultural 18 de Setembre Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine (Cultural Association o Cardona)