Vigo it’s the obligatory place to visit when you come to Galicia. Specially lots of tourists that arrived by sea cruises, the biggest and most important cruises put in at Vigo’s Port, so it becomes one of the most visited ports of the North of Spain.

Before padding the sea and before the construction of the fishing port, the sea arrived to these arcades. It has already mantained the seafaring taste in its arcades, its small houses with wooden and ironed balconies, and its taverns. Small squares, stairs and Cruceiros compose a suggesting seafaring group.

El Castro is the mountain where prehistoric population had established. Now it’s a public park that offers large forest areas, with the fortress on the top where you can enjoy the wonderful views over the ría and the Fragoso valley. There is another important viewpoint in Vigo, that is A Guía mountain, on the top you can visit the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, that it was used as a guide and reference point for the boat skippers. The beautiful park it’s rounded is nowadays a residential area.

The left seashore of the Vigo's Ría is a whole of beaches succession: from the Samil curved beach, getting through the short one of Coruxo, up to the O Bao beach, with it's slight and sheer sand, protected by the Toralla Island. Following, it's the Canido beach and its residential area, that's the first project of satellite town.

Without any doubt the greatest attractive is the Cíes Islands, an hour of delightful trip by ship to enjoy the sun and the Atlantic breeze. There you can relax and have a rest in its heavenly beaches. These islands are near and far at the same time, and visitors always feel attracted by them. They are one of the Galician Nature Reserve.

But it is the city that involving the dynamism and the exceptional scenery of the setting, attracts most of the tourists. Mostly when going up to any of the viewpoints mentioned above, we can gaze at the setting and notice how urban forms melt into the marine skiline, with the particular and exceptional mixture – probably the one-and-only – of mountains, rías, beaches, islands and valleys, all involved by the bright and shining light, typical of this latitude.

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