A route of just over 2.5 kilometres through this World Heritage City.
To 3-kilometre route through the landmarks of Del Miño al Bidasoa in Padrón.
A pleasant walk of 1.65 kilometres through Ourense.
To learn more about Camilo José Cela's manuscripts, please check the website
Camilo Jose Cela's manuscript collection is undoubtedly a unique case in the history of literature, as most manuscripts by on single author being housed in one same place.
The textual genetics of each work can be discerned by means of his handwritten pages: an early manuscript, whose simple…
You can consult the specialized library of the Foundation at the catalogue of the Galician Network of Public Libraries:
The Foundation’s complete library proves that Camilo José Cela was a great bibliophile. His passion for books made him search throughout his entire life in second-hand bookshops for any unobtainable edition, the most forgotten author or a printed copy of…
The rich archive preserved at the Foundation is configured in several sections. The first one brings together the author's documentary collection, portraying many traces of his life and creative activity —travel maps, personal agendas, exhibition brochures, etc— which help to show part of the creative process of one of the most relevant authors of Spanish literature of the twentieth century.
Press Archive:The Press Archive (or the archive of press clippings) is one of the most useful…
You can consult the digitized letter collection, mostly about Papeles de Son Armadans in
Virtual Cervantes/Epistolario.
Or if you wish to consult "The galician Letters of CJC", project done with the Galician Culture Council in 2025 an essential to understand the feeling of Galician belonging of the Nobel price in
To learn more about Papeles de Son Armadans and about the other magazine that Camilo José Cela founded and directed in 1995 until his death in 2002, under the Foundation's roof, El Extramundi and Los Papeles de Iria Flavia:
Mr. Cela was always interested in the visual arts and this is proven by this valuable collection comprising almost 2,000 original works. The collection has rather special pictorial works by artists such as Picasso, Miró, Zabaleta, Laxeiro, Urbano Lugrís and Úrculo. It also includes works by Cela himself, who arranged exhibitions of his oil paintings at the end of the 1940s, and by writers such as Lorca and Alberti.
Graphic art —original or on matrix—, caricatures, sculptures and decorative arts with collections of ceramics, goldwork, textiles and glass, round off this varied…
Medals, street and commemorative plaques, diplomas (among them 25 honorary doctorates), sculptures, trophies, symbolic keys to cities, insignias and a small textile collection of uniforms and robes make up a set of original value and significance. It was assembled by possibly one of the most awarded authors in Spanish literature ever, recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1994, having at the time 182 certified recognitions.
CollectionsCamilo José Cela's interest in collecting all…