Activities and Places of interest

This centre is located on Plaça de la Fira (Fair Square) directly opposite the Town Hall. It is an interpretive centre for the town and its historic quarter, and it has been declared a centre of great cultural interest.

There is a permanent exhibition that has a great graphic and audiovisual repertoire, and it explains the origins and evolution of the town up to the construction of the walled area, which has protected Cardona for over 500 years.

Cardona’s Salt Mountain Cultural Park is located at an old mine called Mina Nieves. The park provides visitors with an opportunity to see Cardona’s saline outcrops and its outstanding natural resources and mineral heritage, which makes this area a truly unique place in the world. Geology, mineralogy, botany and history come together here in a place where man has exploited rock salt since Neolithic times until the industrial age.

Since ancient times, man has searched for sites on mountaintops to construct fortresses from which land and territory can be controlled. In Cardona the geographic position of the castle is ideal. It defended access to the salt quarry and it provides a privileged view of the Cardener River’s valleys.

Cardona Castle sits on a mountaintop and overlooks the Cardener River’s main basin. It was home to the lords of Cardona from the 11th to 15th centuries. The area is divided into two halves; the lords’ quarters and the area of the Canonical San Vicenç Church. The Minyona Tower, the Ducal Courtyard, the castle’s bastions and the great view over the salt basin are well worth a visit.

Sant Vicenç de Cardona is a Romanesque church placed in Cardona (the Bages). The architect of the work is unknown even though we know that his principal was the viscount Bermon. The work was constructed between 1029 and 1040. At present, the church is in a perfect state of conservation.

Josep Arnau i Ratera opened a small exhibition of salt pieces to the rooms of his home, under the will of filling in the careless emptiness in Cardona for the famous museum with salt of father Joan Riba. Fifty years afterwards, that first collection had been broadened in a significant way with the help of his daughters until constituted the Museum of the Salt Josep Arnau.

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Mushroom Art Museum is hosting an exhibition space for more than two hundred species of mushrooms made ​​of mud. It is described as well on the web, a collection consisting of five hundred units classified by type, arranged in glass and décor reminiscent of a natural forest.

Cardona:
The ways of our history

You will be able to enjoy a series of itineraries for the surroundings of the town of Cardona.

Cardona:
The ways of our history

You will be able to enjoy a series of itineraries for the surroundings of the town of Cardona.

Riding centre near Cardona