Saturday 18 June 2016

Cardona Castle 18/06/2016

After going to and event in Solsona with my family we were going back to Barcelona by car. I was driving and felt a bit sleepy and wanted to take a coffee. My mother knew there was a cafe in a rebuild castle called Cardona and we decided to go there. The castle can be reached by car and you can park inside the walls of the fort. The castle has been reconstructed and is now a church, cafe, restaurant and hotel. As it can be seen it was about to rain so we rushed into the cafe and that's the reason I don't have better photos.


The castle was build in the IX century but was lately expanded as a fort and modified in order to be effective to the new fire weapons and artillery that appear during the different centuries.


After parking ( the parking lot is located in number 5) you can inter the older walls by going through a door/small bridge. Then there is a set of small climbs and small streets that let you go through the castle, it's open to everybody without any fee or ticket.




At the top, just near the cafe there is the Minyona tower, that was build in the XI century. Unluckily it was raining quite a lot , so we could take a look.


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