Curiosities about the name Orban

Page Contents:

• St. Orbán wine festival
• Chess
• Aikido
• A German castle with the name "Schloss Orban"
• Villages with names similar to Orban, including
• Orban, near Albi (France)
• Orbán, near Orense in Galicia (Spain)

Do you know that:

• There is a St. Orbán wine festival in Velence, Hungary. This festival is organised on the last Saturday of May in honour of St. Orbán, patron saint of winegrowers and innkeepers. On this occasion there is thanksgiving for his work of the previous year. If he worked well and protected vinyeards from damage his stone statue is sprinkled with muddy water. The verdict and the ceremonial announcement of the wine competition results begins at St. Orbán statue at 4.p.m. in Sárgaföldes Street, Benge-Hill, Velence. The graduation can also be seen organised by St. Benedictus wine order of Velence. Before, from 12 noon, there is a cultural programme, an open market, a procession of wine orders, a litany and a street ball. There is free wine-tasting of wines of the region.
• World champion Garry Kasparov played chess against T. Orban and solved a difficult problem. The solution had been described on Internet, but the page has unfortunately been deleted.
• A castle with the name "Schloss Orban" inspired this beautiful poem in German.
• Orban is a nice little village in the region of Albi (France), near the Gorges du Tarn and described in the link.
• Orbán is also the name of a village in Spain (near Vigo, just North of Portugal), described in the link; in addition, three villages in the Burgos area in Spain are called Orbaneja del Castillo, Orbaneja-Riopico and Orbananoz (see above).
• two villages in Hungary are called Orbantanya (1: between Budapest and Debrecen; 2: in Vas county, close to the Austrian border) and one is called Orbanyosfa (in Zala county, also close to Austria and Slovenia).

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