- Cardona
infobox catalan municipio
province=Barcelona
comarca=Bages
population=5226
population_year=2006
area=66.38
population_density=80.0
elevation=506
demonym="n/a"
location_
Cardona is a town ìn
Catalonia ,Spain , in the province of Barcelona; about 90 km northwest of the city ofBarcelona , on a hill almost surrounded by the riverCardoner , a branch of theLlobregat .Cardona is a picturesque town, with a citadel named the
Castle of Cardona set high on a hill, and the 14th-century RomanesqueChurch of St. Vincenç . It is celebrated for the extensive deposit ofrock 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-greysandstone . 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
* [http://www.18desetembre.org/ Aplec de Cardona] : 18th of SeptemberDemography
infobox catalan municipio demography
pop_1900=3855
pop_1930=4820
pop_1950=6591
pop_1970=7006
pop_1986=6723
pop_2001=5312
pop_latest=5226
latest_year=2006Notes
The movie, "
Chimes at Midnight ", byOrson Welles was filmed at the castle in Cardona.The
portico of the Church of St. Vincenç in Cardona was once covered withmurals . Fragments of these "painted vaults" were restored in 1960 and are now displayed at theMuseu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya inBarcelona .References
*1911
*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
* [http://www.cardona.cat/ Official site] ("in Catalan")
* [http://www.parador.es/english/paradores/ficha.jsp Parador at Cardona]
* [http://www.mnac.es/ Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya MNAC] (National Art Museum of Catalonia)
* [http://www.mercatdelblat.org Associació Cultural El Mercat del Blat] (Cultural Association of Cardona)
* [http://www.18desetembre.org/ Associació Cultural 18 de Setembre] (Cultural Association of Cardona)
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