Cardona, Spain
Cardona is a toun ìn Catalonie, Spain, in the province o Barcelona; aboot 90 km (56 mi) northwast o the ceety o Barcelona, on a hill amaist surroondit bi the river Cardoner, a branch o the Llobregat. Tae the east o the toun, the river haes been divertit throu a tunnel haes been dug throu a spur, leavin a loop o dry river bed near the saltmine.
Cardona | |
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 Church of Sant Miquel | |
 Coat airms | |
  Cardona Location in Catalonia | |
| Coordinates: 41°54′49″N 1°40′50″E / 41.91361°N 1.68056°E | |
| Country | Spain |
| Community |  Catalonia |
| Province | Barcelona |
| Comarca | Bages |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Ferran Estruch Torrents |
| Area | |
| • Total | 66.38 km2 (25.63 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 506 m (1,660 ft) |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 5,187 |
| • Density | 78/km2 (200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | Offeecial wabsteid |
Near the toun is an extensive deposit o rock salt. The salt shapes a muntain mass (cried Muntanya de Sal) covered bi a thick bed o a reddish-broun clay, an apparently restin on a yellaeish-grey saundstane. It is generally mair or less translucent, an muckle masses o it are quite transparent. The hill haes been wirkit lik a mine syne Roman times; pieces cut frae it hae been carvit bi airtists in Cardona intae images, crucifixes an mony airticles o a ornamental kynd.
Main sichts
eedit- The Castle o Cardona, which is set heich on a hill an contains a Parador hotel.
- The 14t-hunderyear Romanesque Kirk o Sant Vincenç.
- The Kirk o Sant Miquel, biggit in the 11t hunderyear an rebuilt in the 14t hunderyear in Gothic style. It hooses a precious polyptych bi Pere Vall, depictin St. Anne, the Virgin an St. Amador, an a 15t-hunderyear baptismal font.
Local festivals
eedit- Caramelles: The Sunday o Passower
- Mercat de la ganga: The first Sunday o Februar
- Fira de Pentecostés: The first Sunday o Juin
- Fira de la Llenega: The last Sunday o October
- Festa Major: The seicont last weekend in September
- Aplec de Cardona Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine: 18 September
Notes
eeditThe movie Chimes at Midnight, bi Orson Welles, wis filmit at the castle in Cardona.
Twin touns
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Bibliography
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This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Cite has empty unkent parameters: |HIDE_PARAMETER15=,|HIDE_PARAMETER13=,|HIDE_PARAMETER14c=,|HIDE_PARAMETER14=,|HIDE_PARAMETER9=,|HIDE_PARAMETER3=,|HIDE_PARAMETER1=,|HIDE_PARAMETER4=,|HIDE_PARAMETER2=,|HIDE_PARAMETER8=,|HIDE_PARAMETER20=,|HIDE_PARAMETER5=,|HIDE_PARAMETER7=,|HIDE_PARAMETER10=,|separator=,|HIDE_PARAMETER14b=,|HIDE_PARAMETER6=,|HIDE_PARAMETER11=, and|HIDE_PARAMETER12=(help)CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)- 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 (Spaingie). ISBN 84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).
References
eedit- ↑ General Consul of Uruguay in Barcelona (4 Februar 2010). "Hermanamiento Cardona Catalana y Uruguaya". Archived frae the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 7 Mey 2011.
Freemit airtins
eedit- Offeecial steid (in Catalan)
- Associació Cultural El Mercat del Blat Archived 2017-10-18 at the Wayback Machine (Cultural Association o Cardona)
- Associació Cultural 18 de Setembre Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine (Cultural Association o Cardona)