Hospital · Oviedo

Hospital Hospicio

Today: Antiguo Hospicio de Oviedo (Hotel de la Reconquista), Oviedo

Place: Oviedo
Kind: Hospital
Built: 1752 to 1770
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The Hospital Hospicio for orphans, foundlings and the destitute, begun in 1752 on the order of Isidoro Gil de Jaz, regent of the Principality's audiencia. It has a Baroque ashlar façade with a portico of seven arches, and its round Doric chapel was designed by Ventura Rodríguez in 1768 and finished in 1770. Since 1972 it has been the Hotel de la Reconquista, one of the venues of the Princess of Asturias Awards week.

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