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Cardona is a town ìn Catalonia, Spain, in the province of Barcelona; about 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. ==Main sights== *The Castle of Cardona, which is set high on a hill and contains a Parador hotel. *The 14th-century Romanesque Church of St. Vincenç. *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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cardona, Spain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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