Praia de Carril

Today we walked into Vigo which was unfortunately not a pretty walk. We walked in through the industrial areas and port and decided to take a taxi to the hotel.

In the Early Middle Ages, the small village of Vigo was part of the territory of Galician-speaking neighbouring towns, particularly Tui, and suffered several Viking attacks. However, its number of inhabitants was so small that, historically, it was not considered a real villa until around the 15th century, when the earliest records began.

Vigo grew very rapidly in the 20th century, thanks to the fact that the Franco government granted it a tax-free zone in 1947 allowing companies to be set up there for free, as well as an Industrial Development Pole in 1964, a very unusual case for a non-capital of a Spanish province. Continuous urban-planning changes left Vigo less structured than other Galician cities. — with Daphne Mackay and Jacqui Becker at Vigo, Galicia, España.Read more