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About Vigo - Spain
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The population of Vigo makes upto 32% of the province of Pontevedra and 12% of Galicia as a whole. Vigo is officially home to just under 300,000 inhabitnts, although in reality, nearly half a million people live, work and study inthe city. As well as being the boggest city in Galicia, it has also seen more emigration than anyother throughout its history, in the past, hundreds of thouands of emigrants passed through the port of Vigo for the Americas. Nevertheless, many tens of thousands decided to stay, to help build the city, to make Vigo their own. Vigo is a veryyoung city, its charter of citizenship dates from 1810. although the most rapid period of urban and demographic development was during the 20th century, when its population increased twenty-fold. The city of Vigo covers some 110 km of rugged terrain, comprised of a ring of mountains whose valleys stretch down to the sea, Vigo borders the towns of Redondela, Mos, Porrino, Gondomar and Nigran, as w...
Vigo - Spain
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Vigo is, above all else, the sea. The sea has shaped the city's history, which has been marked by the Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Normans, and many others who have landed on these shores. The sea has provided the wealth that has built the city and its industry. The sea is aat the heart of th region's cuisine. The sea has also shaped Vigo's environment and surroundings. The sea is trade and transport. The sea is sport and adventure in Vigo the ea is a constant ebb and flow of languages, races, cultures, all of which live together in a cosomoplitan city which the sea manages to connect to any continent and any seaport, fron New York to Cape Town and from Yokohama to Odessa. For the people of Vigo, the sea is the main source of their identity. The sea is life.