Salt Mines in Cardona
The salt mines of Cardona, along with the Salt Mountain, are a unique geological phenomenon. They used to be one of the most important potassium salt mines in Europe, and are now part of the historic and cultural heritage of the municipality.
As a result of the local authorities' decision to give the industrially exhausted facilities a new use for tourism, the old showers have become a museum of ancient photographs depicting the mines and the workers, and the machinery that used to carry miners up and down the shafts has been put to the aid of building the museum.
There is also an exhibition and workshop of handicrafts where salt figurines are made and sold. But the star attraction of the site is a tour through la Minilla, a gallery that runs some 80 metres below the surface for nearly 400 metres. Minerals show up as colour combinations, as do the stalactites and stalagmites formed by the filtration of water.
