Explorer Cardona

The Castle of Cardona stands on a hill above the town and the Cardener valley and was the seat of the lords, later dukes, of Cardona from the 11th to the 15th century. Its walls and bastions enclose the 11th-century Minyona tower and the Romanesque collegiate church of Sant Vicenç, consecrated between 1029 and 1040. Part of the castle is now a Parador hotel.

Cardona's Salt Mountain is a diapir of rock salt rising in the Vall Salina south of the town, worked from the Neolithic until mining ended in 1990. The cultural park in the former Mina Nieves potash mine has a museum area and pithead machinery; guided tours drive down into the valley and walk about 500 metres of galleries inside the mountain, among salt stalactites.