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http://www.turismodevigo.org/index_en.php |
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Factfile |
• Location: 42º 14’ North, 8º 45’ West |
• Area: 110km2 |
• Population: almost 300,000 inhabitants |
• Population density: 2,755 inhabitants/ km2 |
• Mean rainfall: 1.400 liters/m2 per annum |
• Mean temperature: 15ºC |
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Recommendations from the local committee to dinner in a walking distance from the hotels. |
Casa Esperanza |
Excellent Galician homemade food (the most expensive)
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Rúa Luis Taboada, 28
36201 Vigo |
La Trastienda del Cuatro |
A Fashionable place with very good wine, food and tapas.
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Rúa Pablo Morillo, 4
36201 Vigo (beside Atlantico Hotel) |
Follas Novas |
Excelent tapas and more. A classic in Vigo.
[map] (It is further but It’s worth it) |
Serafín Avendaño, 10
36201 Vigo |
La Trucha |
Another classic.
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Rúa Oporto, 7
36201 Vigo |
Prada a Tope |
Food from El Bierzo
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Praza Compostela, 19
36201 Vigo |
La Tagliatella |
An interesting Italian Restaurant
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Rúa Rosalía De Castro, 25
36201 Vigo |
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More about Vigo… |
The population of Vigo is almost 300,000 although the number of people who actually work, study and live in the city may reach half a million. This represents 32% of the population of the Pontevedra province and 12% of the whole population of Galicia. |
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Vigo is a relatively modern city. Its charter dates back to 1810 and it was really in the twentieth century when major urban development and population growth occurred - the population multiplied by twenty.
Although Vigo has a long history. Neolithic rests have been found nearby. It was known as Vicus Spacorum and Archaeological findings show that there was busy port and trade activity along the coast from the second century B. C. to 100 A. D., when the Pax Romana was established. More info |
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The city is situated in the middle of the "Ría de Vigo". Named after the city, this southernmost inlet of the Rías Baixas is undoubtedly the most beautiful of the "Rías".
Bridge of Rande ------> |
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Stretching from the Cíes Islands to the island of San Simón, where it broadens after the bridge at Rande, the whole bay is dotted with picturesque little fishing villages. |
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As well as being the most populated city in Galicia, historically it is also the city that has experienced the highest migration. Hundreds of thousands of emigrants left from Vigo port to sail to Latin America. |
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Its beaches are very appealing with fantastic nautical facilities for water sports and routes along the "Ría".
For the visitors there are excellent views of the bay from several vantage points. One unusual feature of Vigo is that it is a developed urban metropolis on the one hand, but also incorporates rural areas on the other.
Compared to the rest of Galicia, Vigo is fortunate to have a unique local micro-climate which is usually sunny and warm in summer but not unbearably so. |
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Vigo in 1900 |
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