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My Hometown
By Juan Xuna, from his 2002 congressional campaign website. Reproduced as he wrote it.
Original date: page last updated 03/11/2002.
Source: http://xuna.com/main_pages/my_hometown.htm (Wayback Machine capture of 2004-07-04).
I was born in Vigo, Spain, in 1948. At the time the city had only 75,000 inhabitants. Today its population has grown to 250,000 plus another 250,000 in the larger metropolitan area that surrounds the Bay of Vigo. "Las Rias Gallegas" (the Galician Bays) are a group of bays that penetrate deep into the mountainous interior region of Galicia, quite similar to the Norwegian fiords, but here they enjoy a much warmer climate than those folks in the Nordic nation. These bays are well known for the abundance -and diversity- of its seafood.