Located at Quarante, in the Hérault, the Sainte-Marie church is mentioned for the first time in the registers at the beginning of the 10th century. Enlarged at the end of this century, then a second time in the 11th, it began a twinning with the cathedral of Tarragona at the end of the 12th century after the installation of a regular community of canons governed by the rule of Saint Augustine.
The cathedral experienced a strong decline in the fifteenth century, especially under the regime of the commission, remaining even forty years without abbot at its head in the late sixteenth century. In 1642, a community of the congregation of Sainte-Geneviève replaced the original and remained until the closure of the site under the French Revolution.
Listed as a Historic Monument, the Sainte-Marie church is made of stone dressed in an irregular device and covered with tiles. Outside, it reveals a square bell tower, as well as a 12th century porch redesigned in the 16th century in a classical style. Mainly in Languedoc languedoc style, it presents in its interior two altars lobes of the eleventh century.