Baiona, Pontevedra

Baiona ( official name in Galician language, Spanish Bayona ) is a city in Vigo metropolitan area in the province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain.

The area of Baiona bordered to the north by the Atlantic Ocean and the community Nigrán, to the south of Oia, on the east by Gondomar and Tomino and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and in turn to Oia. The city forms, together with Nigrán Gondomar and the comarca of Val Miñor (Spanish Valle Miñor ).

In addition to the town of Baiona include the parishes ( parroquias ) Baina, Baredo, Belesar and A Ramallosa, each consisting of several hamlets and villages, to the community.

Baiona is a tourist city in which to reside in the holiday season up to 50,000 tourists. In the city there is the Castelo de Monte Real, which today serves as the Parador. Historically Baiona resigned in March 1493 appearance, as there arrived the caravel Pinta Martín Alonso Pinzón after the captain of their participation in the First trip to America of Christopher Columbus. This event is today (Eng. The Arrival ) celebrated on the first weekend of March each year, with a medieval festival called A Arribada.

The 1969 being removed from the register of the Catholic Church Holy Holy fictional Santa Librada is said to have experienced a local legend for her martyrdom (in German it was called a grievance or Ontkommer or Wilgefortis ). It still is a shrine dedicated to her in Baiona.