In l to "Praza do Wheat"  was celebrated cereal markets , and where the craftsmen of the ceramics and platería commercialized their products. The Fonte Nova is seen, that it replaced one of century XVIII, and the House of Temes, of the same century.

Ourense is the capital of the province of Ourense. It is the third Galician city by population and is located in the Southeastern of Galicia, happening the Miño river passs by this city. The valley of the Miño in the zone of Orense already was inhabited at the time castreña as they prove the establishments of Castro de Oira, San Tome' and Valdegola as well as the original establishment in the proximities from Ace Burgas, the thermal water sources around which the Roman city was satisfied.

The origin of the city is Roman, exist doubts on the etimología of topónimo Orense/Ourense. The first theory signal that was baptized by the Romans possibly like "the city of gold" (Auriense) by its enormous abundance of this metal, which turned it an important city of the Roman province of Hispania until their reserves of the appreciated gilded metal were exhausted, that could be found in the course of the own Miño river. Another theory postulates that the name of the city came from Latin aquae urente ("burning waters"), or of germanic warmse ("hot lake"), by its well-known thermal water sources, known like Burgas (name derived from low Latin burca, that means battery).

Despite this discussion the certain thing is that during the Roman time a bridge was constructed on the Miño, protected by a small trimming, that comprised of a branch of the Route XVIII that united Brácara and Asturica Augusta and that the population center was in the surroundings of the present Greater Seat.

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