Celleneuve

Celleneuve (Cèlanòva in Occitan) is a part of Mosson neighbourhood, in the West of the city of Montpellier, Hérault, France.

Place Renaudel (Renaudel Square) with its fountain and Cinéma Nestor Burma movie theater

Eglise Sainte-Croix de Celleneuve (Holy Cross Church), one of the oldest churches in Montpellier (XIIth c)

Postcard showing Celleneuve tram terminus on Avenue de Lodève in the 1910s, with a Brill traction

The place name can be translated as new cellar. It first appeared in Aniane's cartulary, written in 799, where it is mentioned that Benedict of Aniane (c. 747-821) created a priory, called Cella nova on the soil of Juvignac, even before the city of Montpellier was founded (first mentioned in a document of 985).

Equipments

• Maison pour tous Marie Curie
• Caisse d'allocations familiales
• Parc Dioscorides
• Esplanade Léo Malet

People from Celleneuve:

• Abbé Fabre (1727–1783), a prior of Celleneuve, writer of Occitan literature, whose Sermoun de moussu sistre, delivered by a drunken priest against intemperance, is a masterpiece.
• Léo Malet (1909-1996), a crime novelist and the creator of fiction character Nestor Burma.