To sail in Ría of Vigo
A magnificent place by the beauty of its different corners. The capricious nature has made that this one is narrowed to become abrir to the bottom creating an ideal tame water cove to sail to motor, the bridge of Rande past. If we arrived at her from the sea we will find before with the islands You back water that they protect an important part laughs of it of the abiertos seas of the Atlantic.
The city from Vigo to its borders offers several navigations from which to embark to pass an funny day of navigation crossing the varied corners that offer to us. We will be able to approach to us Cangas, Moaña, to the near bay of Baiona, or to enter us in her towards Coppers, Cesantes or Redondela. If we looked for the wildest sea we will direct to Cíes that offers beaches and cliffs worthy to remember.
Cíes presents/displays forms differentiated from the west to this. Towards the west it appears a line of inaccessible brave level, with impressive cliffs in which numerous entrants have abierto themselves and caves in which a great amount of fauna nests. The coast that it gives to the interior of laughs it is of smoother relief with pending minors and beautiful beaches in which the sand with the rest of shells is mixed. It is in this protected zone in which interesting samples of the Atlantic flora can be admired emphasizing the Camariña.
In Ría of Vigo and due to its privileged location it offers places and towns that hoard one long history. It laughs it was commercial axis between the different towns from his borders from time immemorial.
In the South margin it laughs of abre it the cove of Baiona to which the Miñor river ends with the ports of Fat and the port of Baiona connected by sandy grounds of Ramallosa and Playa America. Baiona is tourist center of first order but in the antiquity it had more importance than Vigo like mercantile center, and at its coast the caravel arrived in March of 1493 the Dot at the control of Pinzón.
As in the other towns it laughs of it we will find a beautiful architecture with old churches and old woman historical helmets. And in all of them we will find restaurants and tascas in which typical to taste the best food of the Earth and the sea. In the northern margin it laughs of it is Cangas, a fort town economic impulse that still conserves tipismo traditional of its streets and old woman customs, just like Moaña another beautiful marine town.
Towards laughs it to the northeast it is narrowed in Rande where it is crossed by the freeway that unites Vigo with the north of Galicia thanks to a spectacular bridge tightened as a great tray. When transferring Rande we can sail until Redondela town marked by the railroad and its metal bridges.
And to the bottom it laughs of it is based Ponte Sampaio where a famous battle against the French got rid and that ended the French dominion in 1809. Also we will be able to visit famous Arcade in its time for being one of the breeding grounds of oysters of greater importance in Europe.
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The Treasure of Rande
October of 1702 it entered laughs of Vigo the most valuable shipment come from America formed by 19 Spanish galleons and escorted by 23 French allied boats military. More than 100 million gold currencies and silver as well as emeralds and other precious stones they traveled in its warehouses.
But the bureaucratic delays caused that the English pirates found out so succulent booty and allies with the Dutch attacked the fleet in the same laughs where a ferocious battle got rid. The Anglo-Saxons robbed 40 million pieces and the rest along with the fleet lies at heart sunk muddy of the Viguesas waters. According to a cronista of the time, “the galleons returned with two or three million gold shields, twenty million silver shields, two hundred thousand shields in Rep them, three hundred thousands in emeralds, thirty thousands in amethysts, wool of vicuna for fifty thousand shields, the same sum in wood of Logwood and two hundred sixty thousand leather shields”.
The treasures of the Americas normally filled to Cadiz, Seville, but the War of Succession, forced the Fleet of Gold to still turn aside themselves of Cadiz, surrounded by Rooke, towards Vigo, knowing that the bay, in charge of the prince of Barbanzón, commander in chief of the Kingdom of Galicia, was bad defendant. The Spaniards searched near the island of San Simón the Straits of Rande. The treasures did not disembark because the crown did not authorize it without the presence of its inspectors who had still not arrived at Galicia.
Anticipating the combat, it was become ordained to close bocana to each other laughs of it with a floating stockade done with boats, rafts and barrels moored and to the borders and protected by Him Bourbon and L'Esperance. But one hundred fifty English and Dutch ships arrived, following the aroma of gold. In Vigo knocked down by Drake, the rich ones fled and the churches illuminated with wax candles implorando protection. The battle of Rande received two thousand dead and other so many Spanish wounded and eight hundred dead ones and more than five hundred English wounded.
Perhaps the greatest treasure of history sank like right end to the wealth anxieties that lead so much to Spaniards as to English and Dutch to expoliar everything what outside possible.
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