The Salt Mountain Cultural Park

Salt is one of Cardona's characteristic elements and salt extraction has taken place since Neolithic times. In 1902, the first underground salt pit was opened. It was called the Duque pit and it was 50 m deep. In the '20s, sodium chloride and potassium began to be extracted at the Maria Teresa and Alberto pits and subsequently, the Sant Onofre ramp was used, which reached a depth of 1,308 m. The mine closed in 1990.Since then, the facilities have been turned into a cultural site and currently, you can visit the spectacular salt outcrop, as well as several exhibition rooms showing old machinery and a craft workshop producing salt figures in the area called the Salt Mountain Cultural Park.Visitors are taken in specially adapted 4x4 vehicles to a depth of up to 86 m into the salt valley, from where you can see the outcrop, called the salt mountain, perfectly. The visit inside the salt mine, which takes you through one of the old mine's galleries, lasts around 45 minutes and shows you a spectacular and surprising landscape formed by walls of salt with stalactites, stalagmites and veins of different types of salt: sodium, potassium and magnesium.
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