Viveiro

Municipality

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Viveiro

Coordinates: 43°38′53″N 7°35′24″W / 43.64806°N 7.59000°W

Spain

Government

• Mayor

María Loureiro García

Area

• Total

109.3 km² (42.2 sq mi)

Elevation

12 m (39 ft)

Population (2010)

• Total

16,211

• Density

150/km² (380/sq mi)

Demonym(s)

Viveirenses

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

27850

Website

Official website

Viveiro (Galician pronunciation: [biˈβejɾo]) is a town and municipality in the province of Lugo, in the northwestern Galician autonomous community of Spain. It borders on the Cantabric Sea, to the west of Xove and to the east of O Vicedo. It has a residential population of over 16,000 (2010 figures), which however triples in the summer months with visitors to the coastal region.

The climate is mild oceanic.

The municipality encompasses the township of Viveiro itself (the main population centre on the Lugo coast), and also the towns of Covas and Celeiro. More than half of the municipality's population live in these three centres.

Viveiro municipality is subdivided into several administrative areas (parroquias, or parishes): Area-Faro, Boimente, Chavín, Galdo, Landrove, Magazos, San Pedro, Valcarría, Celeiro, Vieiro, Covas and Viveiro.

The old wall, of which only parts remain today, were built to protect the inhabitants from the attacks or from the plague. The remains of the wall, which succumbed to the modernity of last centuries in spite of its importance and simplicity, are easily localized in the old part of the city although they are situated near small moderns buildings. In spite of everything three of its original doors remain upright: the door of Valado with a Romanesque style, the door of Castelo da Ponte, also called the door of Carlos V, that is the emblem of Viveiro. This door has the sculpted imperial arms of the monarch, the original arms of the kingdom and the own arms of the city.

Some of the mansions of the city's noble families are still existing, such as the gunsmith's house sculpted in stone. Religious buildings include the monastery of the Concepcion, which was founded by María das Alas Pumariño (died 1601), and the chapel of Ecce Homo, also called the chapel of Pity, which was built at the expense of Rodrigo Alonso Alfeirán (died 1608).

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