Campanario
BadajozExtremadura
Toponym derived from the Latin campanarium ('place of bells, bell tower'), applied to the elevation with ecclesiastical tower visible from afar.
Pacense town of La Serena, old property of the Order of Alcántara. Preserves the ensemble of the Gothic 16th-century parish church with prominent tower visible from 15 km.
Evolution of the name
- campanarium medieval Latin 5th–9th centuries
- Campanario medieval Castilian from the 13th century
Reflections, to the letter
Climb to the rise of the old quarter and you stand at the root of the name: from Latin campanarium, «place of bells». The tradition recorded by Marsá tells of a defensive wall up here fitted with bells that summoned people from the surrounding hamlets and fields. The name marks not a church tower but a sound that gathered a whole district.
Glossary
- Order of Alcántara
- Cistercian military religious order founded in 1156 in Alcántara (Cáceres) for the defence of the Christian frontier in Extremadura. After the reconquest of the middle Guadiana (1218-1234), it received territorial commanderies in La Serena, Trujillo and Cáceres. Its territorial patrimony came to comprise 200,000 hectares in the 15th century, including forty-seven Extremaduran municipalities.
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