Vigo is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ria de Vigo, the southernmost of the Rías Baixas. It is the capital of the comarca of Vigo.
Image: Vigo panoramico
Image: Pazo Quiñones de León, Castrelos edited
Image: ´El Sireno´ (male mermaid), sculpture by Francisco Leiro (foreground), El Moderno building, Rua Policarpo Sanz. Vigo, Galicia, Spain,Southwestern Europe edited
Image: Illas Cies Praia
Galicia is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra.
A satellite view of Galicia
Bronze Age gold helmet from Leiro, Rianxo
Palloza houses in eastern Galicia, an evolved form of the Iron Age local roundhouses
Castro de Baroña, an Iron Age fortified settlement