Orduña. On November 24, 1588, the mayor of the city of Ordu, Mr. Baltasar de Gaona, and the general minister of the Serphic Order, Fr. Tomás de Iturmendi, granted the capitulations in Vitoria for the foundation of the Convent of San Francisco de Ordu a in compliance with the concession of Pope Sixtus II. The City Council became the patron of the convent, being able to place the arms of Ordu a in it. The primitive convent was occupied by the Franciscans and the new foundation was occupied by the Clarisas nuns who had arrived from Vitoria. The Franciscans persevered in Ordu a until 1834 and the Poor Clares continued. The religious convent became a city hospital in 1846.