Do you know this unmistakable and rarely creeping feeling when you suddenly find yourself in one place and feel that this spot of earth is a special one that seems to stand out from the others and you can’t help but get out of it with a feeling of crisp awe nourish? When you go to the same place, you go to the Covas de Sal in Cardona, those gloomy and at the same time beautiful cave mazesthat eat through the interior of the Salt Mountains, like a mouse a piece of Swiss cheese. This has been the case since 1900 Vall Salina With the potassium salt treasures hidden in its mountains, which have been essential for the people living in the area since the Neolithic age, as a world unique and as an impressive natural wonder.
The Mina Nieves, one of the most important mines in Europe, has been open to visitors since 2003: the journey into the gorge of the mountains begins with the adventurous journey on a carriage that is pulled by a tractor instead of horses and where one or the other sweat breaks would not be the Overwhelming landscapewho captivates everyone. Grow from the green forests Deep red rock formations out, whose rough slopes are speckled with salt crystals. If sunlight seeps across the massif, it begins to shine milky white – here you already get the feeling of being on your way to a strange world.
The interior of the cave then resembles a strange and absurd composition, which is characterized by its Bizarre Beauty impresses. Filigree corals Similarly, the salt crystals grow up to the ceiling. Surrounded by humid and heavy air, one walks from gallery to gallery, with none of the others seem to be the same – sometimes the ceiling falls until it almost touches its heads and is covered with light pink shimmering, icing-like deposits, sometimes the salt has Circular troughs licked into the walls, sometimes the crystals appear like one Lush flowering vegetation. Again and again you have to realize that this fascinating incomprehensible work of art created by nature itself.
After a 45-minute, very insightful tour Through this hidden world, which is hidden in the rock at a depth of 86 m, the sunlight makes you blink a bit. What is now waiting to be explored are several showroomsin which the tools and machines of the miners, as well as black and white photographs can be admired and which immediately take you back to the past. After this journey, the feeling will remain, just witness one important natural wonder to have become – this sweet taste on the tongue will not go away anytime soon.
get there:
Salt Mountain Cultural Park, Carreterra de la Mina S/N, 08261 Cardona
about 1 1/2 hours from Girona
about 2 hours from Figueres
when:
Tuesday – Friday: 10.30 a.m. – 1.30 p.m., guided tour at 11.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m
Weekend: 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m., guided tour every 30 minutes, last guided tour 4.30 p.m.
Closed on Mondays.
how much:
Regular: 11 euros
Pensioners: 8.50 euros
Children 2 – 4 years: 3 euros
Children 5 – 11 years: 6 euros
School groups: 8 euros
Adult groups: 9 euros
