Seated on a riverside, and to the shade of their choperas, it rests in sweet eddy of waters, the town of Hospital of Órbigo on whose magnificent Bridge, a gentleman leonés played for the XV century one of the last Medieval Tournaments.
For the coming generations their feats have been recorded on the same place where they happened, that is to say, on the Roman Bridge that seems to ride on the foamy and playful waters of the river Órbigo. For him they happened, and today they still continue passing countless national pilgrims and of outside of our frontiers, with the single illusion of being prostrated before the Apostle's tomb, in Santiago of Compostela.
It is that on the way to pilgrimage, also call "Road Francés" the one that passes skirting the facade of our beautiful parochial church of Saint John the Baptist, not without before to have greeted, to their skillful one, the reed-mace of the Church of the Bridge that you/they liken a there up and the other one here below, two sentries veiling this onlooker step of stones has more than enough channel of waters.
| They are Hospital and Bridge, in a strategic crossing of roads, next to populations like León, Astorga, The Bañeza and Reed, next the access to the freeway that communicates us with the Cantabrian cornice, and railcars that go into in the Castilian plateau. (these still in execution roads).
Villa of great tradition like industrial center of transformation of agrarian products, due to the constant progressive formation of their School of Amplification of Primary Instruction and of Agriculture, been founded in 1890 by the Sirs D. Francisco and D. Pedro Blanco of Sierra Pambley, men that par excellence knew how to accommodate the teachings of the Institution of the free teaching of Giner from the Ríos to an agricultural area. In piensos factories and milk works the population's great part, sharing a% every smaller time the intensive agriculture, and winning every day more followers the sector services, and overalls the tourist sector that seems can end up being not in a future very distant, the true motor of the district, since our infrastructures advise this way it.
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We have an important number of squares innkeepers, conditioned with the most modern facilities, able to harbor an important number of visitors during the whole year, as well as many rent houses, (generally in summery season).
For those that want a tourism in contact with the nature, in a stricter sense, we have some modern facilities of Camping site, to harbor some 700 people, located in a choperas environment and on the river, what makes it only in many kilometers to the round one, gifted besides all the services, cafeteria, self-service, dilutes hot, illumination public, parking, leisure places, etc...
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| For those who arrive at tired Hospital of an entire day of five pesetas to walk for the highways leonesas and they only dream of resting, I refer to the pilgrims that in summer overalls, they visit us, we have a Hostelry for pilgrims, and of a modern Housing that those it will comfort, and he/she will be necessary to have a lot of willpower put on shoes the boots again and to undertake road, but...
For those that arrive something more always rested them that the option of going by the Base of having Camped, there their bones will rest in a fluffed mattress, and they will be able to count their adventures of the day around a camp fire, or simply counting the stars.
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Equally we have a wide variety of sport facilities, for the practice of the most diverse sports, pools, tennis, fronton, fishes sport, soccer field, basketball, etc.. we also have several infantile parks that are the delight of the small ones and for those that are not able of some hours to pass in the park, they can go to the many bars, cafeterias, taverns, summer terraces, lunchrooms and restaurants, where sure degustarán some typical plates that you/they remembered them for a lot of time. And later to lower those "kilos" of more to dance so in fashion to the rooms of parties, disco or dives in the nights of the riverside summer.
It is the river Órbigo, the one that has given to this area and in short there is this town, something of what feels really proud and it proclaims in all directions; I am referring to the Trout. Here he/she gets ready in all their variants and modalities. Being the Soups of Trout, their more representative plate and the one that bigger number of people already congregates in those well-known gastronomic "Days of the trout" that every year one comes taking place there for the month of March, and where he/she will be able to them degustar, fried, pickled, smoky, in salmagundi, honored, etc.. . Another good excuse to come closer to Hospital of Órbigo.
The municipality celebrates San Blas' festivities (February 3), and of Saint John the Baptist (June 24). Of a time to this part, he/she is catching great peak the carnival that although popular, it is enough participativo with great I number of disguises in charge of the diverse Associations with those that it counts the town.
After a lot of time it has been achieved that our municipality, possess an official coat of arms, and guaranteed by the competent authority, like it is the one emanated of the Columnist King of Weapons of Spain.
To carry out this project - already definitive - D Vicente of Chains and Vicent (current columnist king of weapons), he/she has made an exhaustive study on our environment, reaching the conclusion that there are three things that they characterize to our municipality, that is: our Roman Bridge, the dependence of the Order of San Juan from Jerusalem (until final of the XIX S. it existed in our town, a Hospital of this Commends). And finally, the famous one made of weapons of The Bridge of the Honorable Passo, played by D. Serum of Quiñones, there for the year 1434.
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In field of azure (blue) and sustained by silver waves and azure, a bridge of gold of five eyes, watched over in the sinister one by an armed gentleman of tip in white (silver) that seizes in the skillful hand a lance of the same metal. Franco gules barracks (red) with a cross of silver Malt. The King of Weapons advises, the one that this shield goes stamped with the Real Crown of Spain.
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