Thanks to a storm, Vigo received a visit from Jules Verne in 1878  when he was forced to take refuge on it coast on his journey through the Mediterranean. The second occasion was to repair the boiler of his steam yacht Saint Michel III in 1884.

From his memory of the passage in the city he owes the chapter "La Bahía" from his book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" in which Captain Nemo searches for Rande's treasures.

The impression that the city gave to Jules Verne is reflected in his words:

_ "You cannot imagine anything more admirable than this bay of Vigo, an immense lake surrounded by mountains".

Albert Einstein visited Vigo in 1925 on two occasions, making a stopover on the scientific tour that he carried out in South America. 20 years after creating the Theory of Relativity, and reflects in his diary the impressions that he took from the enchantment of the estuary::

_ "Wealth of colors and incomparable sunset in Vigo".

Other famous Einstein quotes were:

_ "The mind is like a parachute only works if we have it open."

_ "God does not play dices".

Margaretta Gertrude Zelle known as Mata Hari arrived in Vigo in 1916 months before her arrest and subsequent execution.

Another symbols of the city 

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There is less left for Christmas and while the protocols for mobility in these parties are finalized by the government, in Vigo new cameras are installed to control compliance with the covid security in these parties.

In addition, 23 Covid controllers will monitor compliance with safety regulations.

This year the Christmas tree has moved from Puerta del Sol to Calle Policarpo Sanz due to the works that are being carried out for its pedestrianization and 

the parade of the Three Kings will be held in a single street.

The Ferris wheel, the Christmas market, the Christmas Village and the Monumental Bethlehem are abolished this year. Confirmation of the power-on date is expected, presumably late November in streaming.

This was Christmas 2019 in Vigo 

Previous Christmas in the olive city for the little ones.

The period to request the free masks that the Xunta de Galicia will distribute to families with per capita income of up to 6,000 euros is open, from today, Monday, November 16 to 27.

Students with grants for school supplies will have them automatically. In addition to Special Education students, those with a disability> or = 65% as well as those under the tutelage of the Xunta.

Applications will be presented in concerted or public centers.

Likewise, free masks will be distributed for the teachers of these centers so that they will cover them between now and the end of the 2020/2021 academic year.

All this is published in DOG 230 of November 13, 2020.

Request and more information on this link.

Europe confined by Covid:

England confined with new home insulation, Italy with curfew and three levels of security according to the level of contagion of its areas, Greece and France with house confinement since this Friday and Portugal with partial confinement.

Here in Spain the confinement by municipalities in Galicia and Extremadura is decreed. Regional and provincial confinement in Catalonia, the Basque Country and Cantabria. Regional, provincial and municipality confinement in Rioja, Andalusia and Asturias.  Autonomic confinement in Castilla la Mancha, Navarra, Valencia and Castilla Y León. the Community of Madrid is closed only on bridges and public holidays.

Galician cities confined or with perimet closure:

_Vigo, Gondomar, O Porriño, Mos, Redondela y Nigrán (joint perimeter closure) .

_Lugo.

_Santiago,  Vedra, Ames, Boqueixón, Teo, Trazo, Val do Dubra y Oroso, O Pino (joint perimeter closure).

_A Coruña, Arteixo,  Oleiros Culleredo y Cambre(cierre perimetral conjunto).

_Ourense, Barbadás,  Pereiro de Aguiar, San Cibrao das Viñas,Toén Amoeiro y Coles(joint perimeter closure).

_Pontevedra, Poio, Marín, Vilaboa, Ponte Caldelas, Campo Lameiro, Cerdedo-Cotobade, Soutomaior y Barro (joint perimeter closure).

Además se suman otras localidades sujetas a este cierre que será conjunto en caso de ser limítrofes como: 

 O Grove, Ponteareas, Tui, Viveiro, O Carballiño, Verín, Xinzo, Cangas, A Estrada-Lalín- Silleda (joint perimeter closure)Cambados-Vilanova de Arousa -Vilagarcía (joint perimeter closure) Vimianzo, Monforte y Burela.

Athletes with official licenses will be able to train together while athletes without official license must train individually outdoors. The hospitality and restaurants are closed but the shops are kept open reducing their capacity and schools open in the same way.

Cultural events reduce their capacity to 30% indoors and 75% outdoors.

You can only enter or leave these perimeter areas for justified reasons such as work, school, health services or care for adults or minors.

These rules will apply from 00:00 on Saturday while maintaining the perimeter closure in areas that already had it decreed as the case of Vigo or Coruña.

6/11/20 Auditorio Mar de Vigo

7/11/20  Auditorio Mar de Vigo

Auditorio Municipal de Vigo 8/11/20

Noviembre, Tui

20/11/20 Auditorio Mar de Vigo  

21/11/20 Auditorio Mar de Vigo

Del 22 al 29 de Noviembre de 2020

Noviembre 2020 Pincha aquí para más info

III Cycle of Children's Theater of Redondela in the  Auditorio Municipal de A Xunqueira: 25/10/20 to 7/03/21.

The toll for the AP-9 motorway in Vigo -Rande (Redondela) will become cheaper thanks to the new state budgets (if they are approved and subsequently decreed) thanks to the budget allocated to it. It was presented by the Minister of Transport and reflected in the 55 million euros reserved for this purpose.

Likewise, the A Coruña-A Barcala route would also benefit from discounts for users of this route.

This agreement seems to have been obtained in part due to pressure from the BNG, which a few days ago stated that it would only support the General State Budgets if the allocation to Galicia and the expenses of the AP-9 were increased.

Many of us have children in private or public schools, but while public schools have a continuous shift and most private schools, by their own decision, private schools have been in limbo. With a continuous day in which it is impossible to follow the minimum safety distance standards that are required of other sectors of the country, and not only in classes, full of about 25 children, but in the entrances and exits of schools.

In them are grouped parents or in the worst case grandparents who wait for the children. At different gates, as before, only now more distant in timetables and not just once a day, but twice a day of entry and twice a day of departure.

Most of the parents wish and asked the guardian to join forces and request the continuous day, tired of seeing that the "that everything remains the same" prevails.

However, in most of the subsidized schools, the directive responds and relies on the fact that the educational community to which they belong has always offered this schedule, as if it were the only condition for which parents select that school to educate their students. Children. Obviating that normally one looks more for the educational quality of the school and the proximity to the homes when choosing a school. And now it is those parents who have chosen them who are asking for a change and who ask the competent government for education in each community for a continuous journey and not a rooting to customs that are not adequate now.

It is time for them to be listened to and the schedules changed as there are many risk factors apart from the crowding of people at the time of school outings:

One of them is that although children wash their hands more than before and disinfect them with hydrogel but nobody sees that there are disinfectant rugs or similar for shoes, unlike what happens in many other places.

In addition, the use of digital books has been left behind and there are many schools that do not carry it out, claiming that it would be discriminatory for children who have books from the book fund and thus discriminating against those who have been able to buy them, who could also pass material to those who do not and share it. With what they bring home to study each day, should their pages be disinfected at home every day as well as other surfaces?

It is time for responsibility and prudence to prevail as the government already allows changing the split schedule to a continuous schedule due to the pandemic if the dining and transportation services are respected.

It is clear that there are still many fringes to take care of in this fight against the covid and many of those who can move the threads still look the other way, it is time for the stitches to be tacked well and Spain stops going to the queue of the fight against covid and become an exemplary country, like other countries of this European community to which we belong.

On Sundays in October and November, Vigocultura shows will be performed with theater, puppets, circus or dance for the little ones in the afternoon. In December in the morning. Companies such as Luna Teatro or Anita Maravillas will participate

On Fridays and Saturdays from the first week of October to December we will have performances by Teatro do Atlántico, Cinema Sticado, Philippe Kikolas, Elefante Móvil, A Quinta do Cuadrante, Teatro Aforo, etc.

The Ópera Locos stands out among all, (Max Award for Best Musical Show) that will be performed on November 27 and 28.