Cardona, famous for its castle and the ancient salt mines, has a settlement of Roman times with two walls dating from the 1st and 2nd centuries.
This is the first construction of this time that is discovered in Cardona, near the city, the hill of the castle and the valley salí.
Cardona was the last bastion of the War of Succession, when the whole country was already controlled by the Bourbon army, on September 18, 1714, Cardona capitulated into the hands of Philip V and thus ended to the War of Succession.
Cardona is known for the Salt Mountain, a unique natural phenomenon in the world and still grows as the rain erodes it. Its 120 meters are just the tip of an enormous diapir of about two kilometers deep, a whole show of shapes and textures that the saline mass offers.