No plans to go anywhere at this time of year? Pack your bags and come to Vigo!
Autumn is here and with it come some of the best times of the year for enjoying Vigo’s parks and woodlands. The light is softer and the leaves are falling from the trees to create a beautiful multicolour carpet that is irresistible to photography lovers.
If sport is your thing, then the city is surrounded by a green belt of woodland parks that make it the perfect place for...
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...
