The composition of Manuel de Dios, now was converted in 2020 as the "Official Hymn of the Province of Ourense" in a plenary agreement of the Diputación de Ourense in 2014 was released with such recognition at the award ceremony of the Ourensanía award that same year. Manuel de Dios (1930-2009) was a prestigious musicologist, teacher, composer and poet from Ourense, as well as director of the centennial Coral de Ruada and Gold Medal of the Province of Ourense, an award he received posthumously in 2011.
This is the song
“Na ribeira do Miño que acariña / meu fogar, niña xente, meu amor / vou tecendo a cantiga da saudade / cando Ourense esmorece no solpor. / Ourense, gracia dun soño en flor / Ourense, brétema que doura o sol / Ourense, gloria dun ben mellor / Ourense, patria do corazón”.
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From 2004