Celanova

The name is a foundation with a date. In the year 935, San Rosendo —⁠Rudesindus, a Galician-Leonese bishop and nobleman⁠— raised a monastery here, and the new building was called in Latin cella nova, 'the new cell': cella was the monk's cell, and by extension the monastery itself or its granary. The agglutination of article and noun fixed Celanova. Of the monastery of San Salvador —⁠today of San Rosendo⁠— the great Benedictine complex still stands, and in its garden hides a tiny jewel: the Mozarabic chapel of San Miguel, of the 10th century, one of the finest pre-Romanesque oratories in Galicia. San Rosendo withdrew here and here he died; that is why he lends his name to the Galician half of this Camino.