Vigo in Galicien
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Vigo is a city and municipality situated in north-west Spain, in the Spanish autonomous community of
Galicia , and on the
ria , or bay, of the same name, on the Atlantic Ocean. Vigo is the most populous city in Galicia, and the 14th in Spain.
It is located in the south-west of Galicia, in the southern part of the Vigo Bay. In the north-east it borders with the municipality of Redondela , in the east with Mos , in the south with O Porriño and Gondomar , and in the south-west with Nigrán . On the other side of the bay, just in front of Vigo, the municipalities of Cangas and Moaña are located. They are all part of the southern Galician region called Rias Baixas . Vigo and its metropolitan area is one of the main economic agents of the region .Rías Baixas offer a privileged environment for the practice of the nautical sports. Institutions as the Real Club Nautico de Vigo (RCNV), founded in 1906, and the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas (LMB), founded in 1907, are good examples of promotion of the nautical sports, especially sailing.
Volvo Ocean Race 2005 © flickr.com - Luis Alves/cc-by-2.0
The RCNV organizes important events like the Atlantic Week, that in September 2006 received the World Championship of the Platu 25 class. The RCNV also organizes every year in August one of the races with more sailboats of the Iberian peninsula: the
Regata Rías Baixas , that in the 2006 edition included the participation of 130 sailboats of different nationalities.
The LMB is a yacht club that agglutinates around 400 associates. The LMB has a long and intense activity in sailing and recreational fishing. The LMB organizes two important regattas of the Galician calendar of sail: the
Regata Vila de Bouzas and a
Regata de Solitarios y a Dos .
The
Regata Vila de Bouzas honors the neighborhood where is located the LMB. The
Regata de Solitarios y a Dos is sponsored by the firm Aister and is for crews of one and two members. It is a difficult race with two steps. One step consists of a race through the coastal inside the bay of Vigo and the other step is longer race around the
Cies Islands (and/or
Ons Islands ). Likewise, the LMB has schools of sailing and fishing. Yearly it organizes a cephalopods fishing competition.
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