La calle del Reloj une las plazas del Ayuntamiento y de la Basílica de la Encina, en Ponferrada, en el primer tramo, o segundo, según se mire, de esa milla de oro turística y hostelera que va de la puerta de la Fortaleza Templaria a la del Teatro Bergidum. Dos de los máximos puntos de interés para los que visitan Ponferrada se encuentran en la calle del Reloj y varios locales y negocios que forman parte de la historia de la villa hallan su emplazamiento aquí. La calle del Reloj palpita en el epicentro de la vida política del municipio, irriga su atractivo turístico y vertebra su historia.

The old prison, also in the Consistory past, and now Bierzo Museum has its door on this street. Its first construction dates from the 16th century, as the palace of the counts of Torenus. Renovated by the genius of Andrés Lozano, a work that ended in the mid-1990s, it houses a wide collection that runs through the history of this region until the Paleolithic period. It is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 14 p.m. and from 16 to 6 p.m. and on Sundays, only in the morning. It is an institution that attracts locals and tourists, and in its courtyard, that of the fig tree, there are many cultural activities. Like the rest of the municipal museums and the Templar Castle, it is run with excellent baton by Francisco Javier García Bueso.

In front of this museum is the convent of the Purísima Concepción, where 11 nuns live in closure. The church, which is accessed by Flórez Osorio Street, can be visited and, on the roof, features a polychrome wooden deck of Mudejar style worthy of admiring. The construction of this house dates back to the first half of the 16th century. Recently, it has been announced that a reform will be carried out after which a collection of Belenes will be displayed in the convent.

Back on Clock Street, which was officially called Isidro Rueda until Don Celso Lopez-Gavela decided to put his popular odonym in writing, we found in number 11 the Chamber of Commerce, where also operated the Innovation and Training Service of the City Council, the formerly known as Infe, which includes the Aru office, and whose troops are to be transferred to the Mandos building of the former Compostille plant, in that neighborhood.

Another institution based in Ponferrada Clock Street is the Casino. The nautical Club "La Tertulia" celebrates most of its activities on the banks of the Bárcena swamp but its social building on Clock Street has a cafeteria service and, during the summer season, in the attic they mount a crowded summer terrace, which has great views over Ponferrada.

The so-called "Casa del Turco", a grocery store run by the family of Don Manuel Ángel Fernández Arias deputy, is one of the few places on Clock Street that has not been rehabilitated since its closure and which remains inactive. In front, there is the Tararí room, where live musical performances are performed on a weekly basis.

Leisure and hospitality have a good presence on Clock Street. In addition to two more recently opened bars, next to the Clock tower is the Trastevere pizzeria, which, after impressive rehabilitation, gives life to number 6 of the vial. Inside it, there is a piece of what was the fence of the medieval city which is now Ponferrada, which could be accessed, among others, by the adjoining arch of the ages. In front of this ristorant is Chelsea pub since 1999, that is, since the last century. This place, where pop, rock and jazz sound, the most popular musics of the 20th century, was now reformed a decade ago to offer, in line with the usual in the area, pinchos in the afternoon to its customers. The master of this parish, Louis, who was DJ before bartender, is one of the most charismatic figures of the Ponferradine hotel.

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The tower of the Clock, from the 16th century and later enlarged (and recently renovated), also gives time to three other bars of pinchos and a shop of souvenirs and fashionable items, as well as a casual clothing shop for men and women, La Boheme, which has been open for more than 15 years; although the palm in antiquity of the businesses of the area is taken by the hairdresser Boya, which has been cutting with the trust of its customers in its premises since 1929, which is as embedded in the building of the convent

At number 16 of Clock Street, in the old heart of Ponferrada, there is another second-generation business, Cristaleria Gavela. From Fornella roots, from Guimara, in the north-western end of León, this family has run this shop since 1988. On the second floor of this building, he lived as a young Adolfo, the American, a historic footballer of Ponferradina and sporting de Gijón, who after his sports career served as a practitioner. Born in Argentina, hence his nickname, his family returned to Spain and he became a figure in Ponferrada, being Ponferradin to no more power: he married a daughter, Pilar, of Antonio Fernández and Carmen Orallo, the millers of La Parraguesa. But that's already another story...

And of the stories, in the street of the Clock, in that same number 16, has been commissioned for 11 years the writing of El Bierzo Digital, which from these windows overlooking this beautiful road has looked to the present to make it understandable and narrate it. Rigorously and truthfully, from that very Clock Street and for more than a decade, El Bierzo Digital has carried out its informative work. From Clock Street, in Ponferrada, for the whole region.