What to see and do in Camelle

Camelle is a fishing village in A Coruña on the Costa da Morte, linked to Basque whalers and to Catalan sardine and conger-eel salting industries, and a stop on the Way of the Lighthouses. Today it is famous for Man de Camelle, the German artist who lived in harmony with nature by the harbour, and for the parish church, whose bell comes from the City of Agra shipwreck.

German Man

Manfred Gnädinder, known in Camelle as Man the German, was born in 1936 near Freiburg (Germany). A confectioner and later a social worker by profession, in the 1950s he already showed his artistic restlessness and held exhibitions in Germany. In 1962, he arrived in Camelle and settled down on the jetty to live in total harmony with Nature, in a small hut surrounded by a stone garden. His work, a mixture of "Land Art" and ephemeral art, is alive and constantly changing. After the Prestige oil tanker disaster on November 13, 2002, she enters into a deep sadness derived from this natural disaster (which affected her work) and will be the protagonist until the day of her death, on December 28, 2002. Today, the village of Camelle, which helped him so much in his life, pays homage to him with the maintenance of his house and garden, a statue and a museum around his figure.

Parish Church of the Holy Divine Holy Spirit

At the entrance to the village you will find this church with a single nave and a curious Baroque niche altarpiece (1721). Look at the bell tower: the smallest bell is a relic preserved from the wreck of the English ship "City of Agra", which lost 32 of its 61 crew members on 3 February 1897 off the coast of the neighbouring village of Arou.