MAGIC calls at VIGO and meets URBAN CULTURE

Thursday, August 6, 2015 - 14:05 by vigo

Vigo and Barcelona will be the only Spanish ports hosting DISNEY MAGIC 2015 summer season. Although it is not her first visit to Vigo, the city and its people have let themselves be carried away by the fantasy of Disney and have warmly embraced the Magic call.

Being the Cruise Terminal right in the center of the city, passengers have enjoyed the rich and varied leisure offer that the city of Vigo has available for its guests: shopping, parks and nature, culture and its delicious food and gastronomy, apart from the wide offer in shore excursions to close historical villages, famous local wineries and natural surroundings full of charming.

But this time, Disney Magic guests and crew have tasted right close to the Terminal the last preparations for Vigo sports highlight of the year: “ARNETTE O MARISQUIÑO”, an international urban culture meeting held in Vigo every August with all sort of urban culture and sports events whose main attraction is the WORLD CUP SKATEBOARDING.

From 7th to 9th of August, besides the World Cup Skateboarding 2015 (WCSk8 2015), the 15th edition of Arnette O Marisquiño will include other international sports competitions and exhibitions of BMX, Mountain Bike Dirt Jump, Flatland Jam or Freestyle Motocross, among others. All this sports agenda, along with urban music concerts and Breakdance and Graffiti contests, are developed in the port area between Vigo’s two Cruise Terminals, and bring together every year more than 100,000 people, turning Vigo into the Spanish capital of urban sports and culture.

MAGIC calls at VIGO and meets URBAN CULTURE

VIGO: Disney Magic meets Urban culture (c) APVigo

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The city of Vigo (the most populated city of the Northwestern Spain), also known as “The city of olives”, is located on one of the most beautiful landscapes in the Iberian peninsula, and looks over the bay with the same name. From the Cies Islands up to the island of San Simon, and then expanding after the Rande bridge; the whole bay is dotted with picturesque small fishing villages. The Celts and the Romans, who left many artistic traces, lived in Vigo, a place that was officially appointed as a city in 1816. Historical events: attacked by pirates driven by Drake and the Duke of Lancaster; witness to the Battle of Rande, taken by the French in 1809 and liberated by Cachamuina and Morillo, promoted to “Loyal and Valiant City”, led into the industrial era with the help of the Catalonians, has reclaimed land from the sea and turned into a cosmopolitan metropolis. The highest stands are the hills of O Castro and A Guia, and from there it winds down to the charming old quarter.