FORMER PILGRIMS’ HOSPITAL OR “PIEDADIA”

The village's former pilgrims' hospital (devoted to Our Lady of Piety) was located in Orio's "Kale Nagusia" (Main Street). For centuries, this building took in pilgrims, travellers and poor people in need of shelter. According to texts from the 16th century, at that time it had a hospitalero (volunteer warden who had walked the Way of Saint James) and around twenty beds. Today only traces of this building remain.La Calle Mayor o "Kale Nagusia" de Orio albergó también el antiguo hospital de peregrinos de Orio, adscrito a la advocación de Nuestra Señora de la Piedad. Este edificio acogió durante siglos a peregrinos, viajeros o a pobres necesitados de cobijo. Según relatan testimonios del siglo XVI en aquella época contaba con un hospitalero y una veintena de camas. Hoy día quedan solamente los vestigios de aquella construcción.