It is a Spanish city and municipality located in the southeast of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Ourense and of the homonymous region. It is the third Galician municipality by population after Vigo and La Coruña, and the most populated in the interior of Galicia, with 105,233 inhabitants according to INE data in 2019.
The city is crossed by the rivers Miño, Barbaña and Lonia. It is known as "City of Las Burgas" due to its famous hot springs, in which the water comes out at temperatures between 60 and 68 ° C. There are also hot springs in the Chavasqueira spa, O Tinteiro, Muíño da Veiga and Outariz.
The origin of the city is Roman, although there are doubts about the etymology of the Orense place name. The first theory indicates that it was baptized by the Romans possibly as "The city of gold" (Auriense) due to its enormous abundance of this metal, which made it an important city in the Roman province of Hispania until its reserves of the prized golden metal, which could be found in the course of the river Miño itself.
After the Roman domination, Orense remained an important city due to the bridge over the river Miño, whose pillars are still Roman and which has been rebuilt multiple times throughout history. This strategic location made the city an important commercial center since the Middle Ages.
The 12th century cathedral, with its Pórtico del Paraíso and the Santo Cristo, the main bridge, the cloister of San Francisco, the church of the Holy Trinity and Santo Domingo, and the whole of its old area, in the process of being Recovery. Read More
Distance between:
Madrid to Ourense254 Miles / 409 Kms Barcelona to Ourense522 Miles / 841 Kms
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