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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.
' Royal Celtic Club of Vigo '), commonly known as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. Nicknamed Os Celestes (The Sky Blues), the club was founded in August 1923 as Club Celta , following the merger of Real Vigo Sporting and Real Fortuna .
Vigo is a city in Galicia, Spain. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. M. Mass media in Vigo (3 P) P. People from ...
Vigo is a comarca in the Galician province of Pontevedra, Spain. It covers an area of 613.4 km 2 , centred on the city of Vigo, and the overall population of this comarca was 423,825 at the 2011 Census; [ 2 ] the latest official estimate (for the start of 2019) was 424,765.
Vigo was one of the cities through which football entered the Iberian Peninsula, thanks to British sailors and workers.The first demonstrations of the sport were made by the team of the British company Electric Telegraph Company, which was installing the telegraph cable between the islands and Vigo, to connect with Lisbon from there.
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 ...
Stefan Bajcetic Maquieira [2] was born on 22 October 2004 [3] in Vigo, Galicia. [1] He is the son of the Serbian former footballer Srđan Bajčetić and a Galician mother. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Garcia Barbon Theatre, also known as Afundacion Vigo Theatre (Galician: Teatro Afundación Vigo) for sponsorship reasons, is a 994-seat performing arts center in Vigo, Spain. Designed by Spanish architect Antonio Palacios , it was built in 1927 on the site formerly occupied by the Rosalia de Castro Theatre, destroyed by fire in 1910.