Redondela is a municipality in the province of
Pontevedra
Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...
, in the autonomous community of
Galicia,
Spain
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. It belongs to the
comarca
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of
Vigo
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. The most famous icons of the village are its two major railway viaducts built in the nineteenth century. Due to these infrastructures Redondela is known under the nickname "Village of the viaducts." The town lies on
the Portuguese Way
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, one of the
Camino de Santiago
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pilgrimage routes.
The municipality has an area of 51.9 km2 (20.0 sq mi) and has a population of 29,192 in 2021.
Parroquias
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Cabeiro
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Cedeira
Cedeira is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is situated in the northern coast of the Rías Altas. Cedeira has a population of 6,626 inhabitants ( INE, 2022).
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Cesantes
Cesantes is a small town in Redondela, in the Pontevedra part of the Vigo Metropolitan Area and located in Galicia, an Autonomous Community in northwestern Spain.
Population
Its population in 2005 was 3,420 (1,747 men and 1,673 women) and its ...
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Chapela
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Negros
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Quintela
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Reboreda
* Redondela
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Saxamonde
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Trasmañó
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Ventosela
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Vilar de Infesta
Vilar de Infesta is a parish in Redondela
Redondela is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra (province), Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the Comarcas of Galicia, comarca of Vigo ( ...
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O Viso
O Viso is a small village with less than one hundred people. It is part of the parish of San Mamede, Carnota which a member of the county of Carnota. The province is A Coruña
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Verne Monument
The Town has a large monument to
Jules Verne
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His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
.
See also
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Ignacio Ramonet
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Battle of Vigo Bay
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Mendinho
Mendinho, also ''Meendinho'', ''Mendiño'' and ''Meendiño'', was a medieval Iberian poet.
Nothing is known about Mendinho except by inference. Scholars generally assume from the reference to the shrine of ''San Simión'' (in the modern Isle of ...
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Ernestina Otero
References
External links
Map of Redondela area, Ria de Vigo(small
PNG
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image)
Paxina Web do Concello de Redondela, Council's Web SiteGroup Folkloric O Carballo das Cen Pólas (Reboreda)
Municipalities in the Province of Pontevedra
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