Cardona, Spain

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| settlement_type = Municipality

| image_skyline = Parador de Cardona 1.jpg

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| image_caption = Cardona from the air

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Spain

| subdivision_type1 = Community

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Catalonia}}

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Barcelona

| subdivision_type3 = Comarca

| subdivision_name3 = Bages

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| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Ferran Estruch Torrents (2015){{cite web|url=http://aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat/index.php?page=consulta&mostraEns=0804780001|title=Ajuntament de Cardona|publisher=Generalitat of Catalonia|access-date=2015-11-13}}

| area_footnotes = {{cite web|url=http://www.idescat.cat/emex/?lang=en&id=080478|title=El municipi en xifres: Cardona|publisher=Statistical Institute of Catalonia|access-date=2015-11-23}}

| area_total_km2 = 66.7

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| elevation_m = 506

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| postal_code = 08261

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| website = {{url|www.cardona.cat}}

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Cardona ({{IPA|ca|kəɾˈðonə}}) is a town in the Spanish region of Catalonia, in the province of Barcelona; about {{convert|90|km|abbr=on}} 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.

File:RockSaltCardona.jpg mine in Cardona]]

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.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}