Valverde de la Virgen .

VALVERDE DE LA VIRGEN

The basic production of the population of Valverde de la Virgen, can be said that historically stands out especially in agriculture for its wine production and grain farming, as in the present era noted for its commercial sector.

Livestock never achieved by the characteristics of the land, overdevelopment, while it is true that was remarkable in quality and that the people of this municipality contributed historically to the supply of meat for the City of Leon, in the markets therein traditionally they held on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

It had to be created in the mid nineteenth century in an administrative arrangement that was made and that significantly affected all municipalities included in the land that mediates between Orbigo and Bernesga.
Formerly part of the term of Quintana Raneros of which seceded to form the municipality of Valverde de la Virgen, entities of population of Valverde, Fresno, Montejos, San Miguel and the Virgin, then called the Hermitage and surnamed all the Way, by be located on or near the medieval road par excellence following the most European pilgrims to go to Santiago de Compostela. These joined, also the immense segregated Quintana term Raneros, several of the people surnamed the Valdoncina, being located in the Valley of the name: La Aldea, Oncina and Robledo.
Thus constituted this municipality Valverde del Camino was called until in the final years of the first quarter of the twentieth century, officially changed its name to Valverde de la Virgen in homage to what is patroness of all Leonesa region and whose solemn coronation he was preparing by then, leaving the term in the final years of the reign of King Alfonso XIII, who was represented in it by the Prince of Asturias and attending these events, the most solemn held in the City and Province of Leon during centuries, many prelates and many leoneses absent from their land some of whom returned from America with the sole intention of witnessing the ceremony indicated.