September 4–7: Celebrate Seafood Festival in Vigo
The Seafood Festival is held every September to mark the arrival of the months with an “r” and the opening of the season for the best seafood from the Vigo estuary.
The festival will feature a large gastronomic tent offering dishes such as scallops, velvet crabs, lobster, Galician-style octopus (“pulpo á feira”), empanadas, and wines with...
Taste Vigo’s authentic farm mussel
The mussel is the king of the Vigo estuary. Cultivated with traditional techniques and kept in the hundreds of farms that dot the coast of Vigo, mussels can be prepared dozens of different ways. The Vigo Mussel Festival, that will be held in Castrelos Park, on the 7th of September, is the best way to discover a typical mexilonada (mussel fest). In the words of one of the most universal Galician writers, Álvaro Cunqueiro...
Do you usually take your skate or bike everywhere? Are you a break dance machine? Then you cannot miss going to the biggest urban sport festival in northern Spain: “The marisquiño”.
Come to Vigo from the 7th to 10th August and enjoy an incredible time with your friends, learn new techniques from your urban sport idols and find out the best spots to slide, practise and test your limits. At Monte de O Castro or in Navia...
Magical, ancestral rituals are celebrated all over Galicia on the Eve of Saint John, which signals the start of summer and the triumph of the light from the sun. Fire, water and aromatic herbs become good luck charms for the coming harvest. You can enjoy bonfires, sardines on cornbread and red wine in every corner of Vigo.
But first you must climb to the Cíes lighthouse to see the first sunset of summer over the Atlantic and the arrival of the shortest night. The low level of light pollution...
