The sculpture of "the bronze
Horses " presides over this seat made by Juan Jose Oliveira, represents a group of
five horses ascending by a cascade. The joint weight 40 tons and
reaches the 18 meters. The base complements with a pool of 10m
of diámetro.Es a tribute to the wild horses that formerly populated
Monte with Or I castrate and that at the present time still grazes in
some mounts of Vigo.
Vigo is the greater urban nucleus of
the province of Pontevedra, lines up historical of Val do Fragoso.
It is Low a coastal city of Ri'as that limits the North with
laughs to which it gives it name, (Laughs of Vigo), to the Northeast
with the municipality of Redondela, to the East with the one of MOS,
to the South with those of Porriño and Gondomar and to the Southwest
with the municipality of Nigrán. To the other side of Ri'a and
just before the city are the villas of Cangas and Moaña, to 5 and 3'6
km of distance, respectively. The viguesa region is characterized by the superiority of
an economy diversified tie to the industry and the services.
Between the motors of the economy of Vigo it is the automobile
industry, led by PSA Peugeot Citroën, that has in the municipality his
first factory in importance of Europe, when producing in 2004 a total
of 458,550 vehicles, of which more of 88% they were exported outside
Spain. Also, the naval construction and the fishing sector
in all their slopes are
important, from the extractive industry, shipbuilding, to the
commercial one, with its markets of height and of bajura, as well as
the conservera, congeladora and transforming industry. Vigo is
the first port drug dealer of fish for human consumption of the world
(650000 tons in 2004), and the shipyards of Ri'a are leaders of the
Spanish deprived naval construction, by invoicing and tonnage.
Also it emphasizes the extraction, transformation and
commercialization of granite and other ornamentales stones in
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