Vigo

Vigo is a port city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwest Spain. It sits on the southern shore of the Ria de Vigo, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost of the Rias Baixas, and is the capital of its own comarca. The municipality covers about 109 square kilometres, takes in the Cies Islands of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park, and had 295,523 residents in 2024, which makes it the most populous municipality in Galicia and the 14th most populous in Spain. Its economy rests on its harbour and on a large vehicle assembly plant, and the European Fisheries Control Agency is headquartered there. The climate is warm-summer Mediterranean with heavy winter rain. Vigo was attacked several times in the 16th and 17th centuries, was walled in 1656 and was the first European city freed from French rule in 1809.