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Vigo (Galician:, locally; Spanish: ⓘ) 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.
Vigo Village / ˈ v aɪ ɡ oʊ / is a village and (as simply Vigo [2]) a civil parish in the Gravesham district in Kent, England. It takes its name from a 15th-century public house , which was renamed in the 18th century after the Battle of Vigo Bay .
Location of Vigo County in Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Vigo County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Built on a hill of the same name, the defensive system of Vigo consisted of the fortresses of O Castro and San Sebastián along with the city wall. The city wall had an irregular shape due to the orography of the city, and was constructed by two Spanish Army officers: Colonel Fernando de Gourannanbergue and Maestre de campo Diego Arias Taboada ...
It is a tourist town with a medieval historical center situated by the outlet of the Vigo Bay. Its population of just over 11,000 rises to around 45,000 in summer, if one includes the tourists. Since it is on the Portuguese Way, one pilgrimage route of the Camino de Santiago 30,000 hikers also visit the town every year. Other than tourism the ...
Santiago de Compostela, [a] simply Santiago, or Compostela, [3] in the province of A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain.The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. [4]
Co-Cathedral of Santa María, also known as Vigo Co-Cathedral, is a Spanish religious building. It is co-cathedral with Tui Cathedral . The original church was rebuilt in neo-classical style after being burnt down by Francis Drake 's soldiers in 1585.
Vigo [1] is an area of Walsall Wood in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands county of England. [2] It is located to the northeast of both Aldridge and Walsall. [3] It is located between Aldridge and Walsall Wood. It is also bordered by the Daw End Branch Canal, [4] separating it from the nearby villages of Shelfield and ...