Anna Poza Pedrosa, manager of the Historical Cardona Foundation, and Josep M. Coll, with their photographs, share in The Photos of Readers of La Vanguardia a photographic report that details some of the secrets of the Salt Mountain of Cardona and its attractions for the visitor.
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“A show of shapes and textures”
The Salt Mountain is a unique natural phenomenon in the world and even today it grows as the rain erodes it.
Its 120 meters are just the tip of a huge diapir about two kilometers deep.
During an hour of walking, you go up to 86 meters and enjoy the spectacle of shapes and textures that the salt mass offers.
For years, this tourist space that can be visited today, became one of the most important potassium salt mines in the world, the Nieves de Cardona Mine (1929 to 1990).
Today, the old mining site is the Salt Mountain Cultural Park, a great cultural facility that aims to disclose the importance of salt, the geological exceptionality of the site and the use that man has made of this natural resource for centuries.
We reproduce the photographic report below:
The mountain of salt. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
Fantasy shapes. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
Entering the Salt Mountain Cultural Park. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
Shapes and textures of the salt mountain. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
Detail of the interior. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
View of the Salt Mountain Cultural Park. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
The beauty of the interior of the salt mountain. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
Inside the mountain. (Josep M Coll / JMC)
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