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Cardona

Village

Cardona is a town in the Spanish region of Catalonia, in the province of Barcelona; about 90 km (56 mi) northwest of the city of Barcelona, on a hill almost surrounded by the river Cardener, 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.

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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.

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Village information

Coat of arms of Cardona
Province
Barcelona
Autonomous community
Cataluña
Population (INE 2025)
4,553
Altitude
513 m
Area (IGN)
66.3 km²
District
Bages
Postcode
08261
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Festivities in Cardona: 25 oct (Feria de la Llenega y el Bosque de Otoño)·See places to stay for those dates

What to see

  1. 1Castillo de Cardona
  2. 2Iglesia de San Vicente de Cardona
  3. 3Puente del Diablo
  4. 4Puerta de Graells
  5. 5Torre de Meer
  6. 6Casco antiguo de Cardona
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What to do

  1. 1Hiking: El Camí IT2TR3 El Camí de Ponent: de Balaguer a Montserrat
  2. 2Hiking: GR 3 Sender Central de Catalunya - Etapa 42
  3. 3Hiking: GR3.1 · Camí de la Sal (variant GR3)
  4. 4MTB: Castells de Frontera Ruta 8 - Cardona de mirador a mirador
  5. 5MTB: Ruta del romànic XVII.1 – Pels Dominis dels senyors de Cardona
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Photo gallery

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Foto: Krzysztof Golik (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • 11 places to stayIllustrative photo · Rourevell Turisme Ru… · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Accommodation

    11 places to stay in Cardona

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  • 11 restaurantsIllustrative photo · Jessica Spengler · CC BY 2.0

    Eat

    11 restaurants in Cardona

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  • 5 experiencesIllustrative photo · Enrique Amigo · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Experiences

    5 experiences in Cardona

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Useful information

Everything you need for your visit or your day-to-day

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Town council

    • Phone: 93 869 10 00
    • Official website: www.cardona.cat
    • Email: cardona@cardona.cat

Services and transport

Travelling with your pet

Parks, beaches and places to stay that OpenStreetMap marks as dog-friendly. Many places allow dogs without it being marked: ask when you book.

Education, sport and elderly care

Connectivity

  • Fibre broadband· of homes66 %
  • 4G mobile coverage· of homes100 %
  • 5G coverage· of homes100 %

No data on: tourist office, train station, ATMs, street market, nursery school.

Data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL), extract from October 2026: we count what is mapped within the municipal boundary. "No data" means OpenStreetMap doesn't have it, not that it doesn't exist. Completed with Overture Maps (CDLA-Permissive-2.0): the pharmacies, health centres, petrol stations, banks, cash machines, food shops and schools that OpenStreetMap was missing. Town hall contact details: General Database of Local Entities (Spanish Ministry of Finance); tourist offices: each region's open registry, where it publishes one. Connectivity: Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation, % of homes covered in June 2025.

Cardona Town Hall

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Where to sleep in Cardona

11 registered places to stay

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