Santa Maria de Josa / Josa de Cadí

The parish of Josa de Cadi is mentioned in the act of consecration of the cathedral of La Seu d'Urgell. The old church of Sant Maria is currently the cemetery chapel.

It is a single-nave building topped on the east by a semicircular apse open to the nave with a fold that forms the presbytery arch. The nave is covered with a barrel vault reinforced by two toral arches. Inside, the apse is covered by a Baroque altarpiece.

Light enters through three windows, one in the centre of the apse, with a single spill, one on the western façade, with a double spill, and a third one with a single spill on the southern façade, where the entrance door to the church also opens in a semicircular arch. The belfry bell tower stands on the western façade. It has a single spire with a monolithic lintel cut out in the form of an arch on the inside.

Four buttresses built before 1979 reinforce and ensure the stability of the building.

The church of Santa Maria is considered to be a 12th century work with influences from the previous century.