Ourense
Ourense is a city in Galicia in northwest Spain, with a population of 105,000 in 2024. It's mostly modern and industrial but has a medieval quarter around its cathedral, a stop on the Via de la Plata branch of El Camino pilgrimage trail to Santiago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 98,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Galicia, northwestern Spain
- Historically known as: “Orance”
- Postal codes: 32001-32005, 32070, 32071, 32080, 32103, 32915, 32950, 32960, 32970, 32980, 32981, and 32990
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ourense-Empalme railway station and Ourense Cathedral.
Ourense-Empalme railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jtcurses, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ourense-Empalme Railway Station is the main railway station of Ourense, Spain.
Ourense Cathedral
Church
Photo: Fernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ourense Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in Ourense in Galicia. Dedicated to St Martin, it was founded in 550. The first structure was restored by Alonso el Casto.
As Burgas
Fountain
As Burgas are hot springs in the historic center of Ourense, in Galicia, Spain. They include Burga do Medio, which is infused with gas, Burga de Arriba and a Burga de Abaixo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include O Couto and Eiroás.
Ourense
- Categories: municipality of Galicia and locality
- Location: Ourense, Galicia, Green Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.3436° or 42° 20′ 37″ northLongitude
-7.8674° or 7° 52′ 3″ westPopulation
98,000Elevation
146 metres (479 feet)IATA airport code
OUQUnited Nations Location Code
ES OREOpen location code
8CJJ84VM+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 30843230OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3114965Wikidata ID
Q99151
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Ourense” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኦረንሴ”
- Arabic: “أورنسي”
- Arabic: “أورينسي”
- Aragonese: “Ourense”
- Armenian: “Օրենսե”
- Asturian: “Ourense”
- Azerbaijani: “Orense”
- Basque: “Ourense”
- Belarusian: “Арэнсе”
- Belarusian: “Арэнсэ”
- Bengali: “ওরেন্স”
- Breton: “Ourense”
- Bulgarian: “Оренсе”
- Catalan: “Ourense”
- Cebuano: “Ourense”
- Chechen: “Оренсе”
- Chinese: “Ourense”
- Chinese: “奥伦塞”
- Chinese: “欧伦塞”
- Chinese: “歐倫塞”
- Chinese: “歐倫薩”
- Czech: “Ourense”
- Danish: “Ourense”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ourense”
- Dutch: “Ourense”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اورينسى”
- Esperanto: “Orenso”
- Esperanto: “Oŭrenso”
- Finnish: “Ourense”
- French: “Coyos”
- French: “Orense”
- French: “Ourense”
- Galician: “Ourense”
- Georgian: “ორენსე”
- German: “Ourense”
- Greek: “Οουρένσε”
- Greek: “Οουρένσι”
- Greek: “Ορένσε”
- Guarani: “Ourense”
- Gujarati: “ઓરેંસે”
- Hebrew: “אורנסה”
- Hindi: “ओरेंसे”
- Hungarian: “Ourense”
- Icelandic: “Ourense”
- Indonesian: “Orense”
- Indonesian: “Ourense”
- Interlingua: “Ourense”
- Interlingue: “Ourense”
- Irish: “Ourense”
- Italian: “Ourense”
- Japanese: “オウレンセ”
- Kannada: “ಓರೆನ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Оренсе”
- Korean: “오렌세”
- Korean: “오우렌세”
- Ladin: “Ourense”
- Ladino: “Ourense”
- Latin: “Auria”
- Latvian: “Orense”
- Latvian: “Ourense”
- Ligurian: “Ourense”
- Lithuanian: “Orensė”
- Lithuanian: “Ourensė”
- Lombard: “Ourense”
- Luxembourgish: “Orense”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Ourense”
- Macedonian: “Оренсе”
- Malagasy: “Ourense”
- Malay: “Ourense”
- Maori: “Ourense”
- Marathi: “ऑरेन्स”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ourense”
- Northern Frisian: “Ourense”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ourense”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ourense”
- Norwegian: “Ourense”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ourense”
- Ossetian: “Оренсе”
- Persian: “دهستان اورنسه”
- Polish: “Orense”
- Polish: “Ourense”
- Portuguese: “Ourense”
- Romanian: “Ourense”
- Russian: “Оренсе”
- Scots: “Ourense”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ourense”
- Serbian: “Овренсе”
- Serbian: “Оренсе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ourense”
- Silesian: “Ourense”
- Sinhala: “ඕරන්ස්”
- Slovak: “Ourense”
- Slovenian: “Ourense”
- South Azerbaijani: “دهستان اورنسه”
- Spanish: “Orense”
- Spanish: “Ourense”
- Swahili: “Ourense”
- Swedish: “Orense”
- Swedish: “Ourense”
- Tamil: “ஓரென்சி”
- Tatar: “Оренсе”
- Telugu: “ఔరెంసె”
- Thai: “โอเรนเซ”
- Thai: “โอว์แรนเซ”
- Turkish: “Ourense”
- Ukrainian: “Оренсе”
- Urdu: “اورینسے”
- Venetian: “Ourense”
- Vietnamese: “Ourense”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ourense”
- Welsh: “Ourense”
- Wu Chinese: “欧伦塞”
- Yue Chinese: “歐倫薩”
- “Ourense”
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