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What to see and do in Josa i Tuixén

What to see and do in Josa i Tuixén (Alt Urgell, Lleida): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Activities

How far each place is from the centre of Josa i Tuixén

Castle of Tuixent 250 m
Museum of les Trementinaires 250 m

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What to see and do in Josa i Tuixén

Josa i Tuixén
Village
Josa i Tuixén is a mountain municipality in the Alt Urgell, in the province of Lleida, on the foothills of the sierra del Cadí, with 110 inhabitants. Its seat is Tuixén, which includes the settlement of Josa del Cadí; both centres are mentioned in the act of consecration of Urgell Cathedral. Tuixén belonged to the lordship of the Seu until the end of the Ancien Régime, and Josa del Cadí to the Pinós family and later to the dukes of Alba de Tormes. The village retains its Tuixent castle and two Romanesque churches, that of Saint Stephen in Tuixén, with a Byzantine-style image, and that of Saint Mary and Saint Barnabas in Josa. In Tuixén stands the Museum of the Trementinaires, dedicated to the women who in the 19th century sold herbs from village to village. The municipality lives from dry farming and cattle raising.
Castle of Tuixent
Monument
No trace remains of Tuixent Castle, which probably stood in the upper part of the town of Tuixent, in the municipality of Josa i Tuixén (Alt Urgell): its remains were used to build the village houses. The place name has been documented since the year 966, and the castle was owned by Saint Mary of La Seu d'Urgell, which recovered the parish of Tuixent in 1024. Throughout the 11th to 14th centuries, disputes over its possession followed one another between Urgell Cathedral and various feudal lords; according to the fogatjament of 1365-1370, it was once again in the hands of the chapter of Urgell, a situation that lasted until the abolition of jurisdictional lordships in the 19th century.
Josa i Tuixén Main Festival
Activity
The fiesta mayor of Josa i Tuixén is celebrated in a municipality that commemorates the trementinaires, women from the vall de la Vansa who, since the 19th century, gathered medicinal herbs and essences and sold them on foot in villages and farmhouses; the museum honoring them opened in Tuixent in 1998.
Museum of les Trementinaires
Monument
Opened in Tuixent in 1998, it recalls the women of the vall de la Vansa who gathered medicinal herbs and essences and sold them on foot through towns and farmsteads. The trade was practised from the nineteenth century and Sofia Montaner made the last journey in 1984.