Shopping in Vigo

Shopping for Food ("food, glorious food" )

You can find a large selection of groceries at a good price in Alcampo. There are two Alcampo hypermarkets in Vigo. One is on Avenida Castelao and the other one is on Avenida de Madrid.
To buy fruit and vegetables at a good price, you can go to Frutas Sol or Frutas Nieves. You can find them all over the city.
To buy seafood at a good price, you must go to Familia supermarkets. There are several Familia supermarkets in Vigo that you can look for on the internet.

Pharmacies in Vigo

You can buy drugs (legal ones, only!) or medicines in Vigo at registered pharmacies. You find them in all neighbourhoods and all these places have a big lighting green cross. You can buy other products but only related with your health. For many medicines you need a medical prescription from the doctor, if you have an emergency, you'd better go to the hospital.
You should know that there are a few pharmacies open 24 hours a day and the information about which ones are open, you can find in any pharmacy. If the pharmacy is closed, generally, the information is located in a paper put in the door or window and there are the addresses of pharmacies  nearest you. Also, you can look for a pharmacy in Vigo by internet: http://www.cofpo.org/index.php/farmaImage-es.html but the information is only in Spanish, you should select Vigo as city or "Municipio", date or "fecha" and press search or "buscar" button, next appears the information of all the pharmacies in Vigo with the timetables.

Shopping for Clothes

If you want to buy clothes in Vigo, there are different options. In the first place, mainly when it's raining, you can go to shopping centres, for example, Gran Via Shopping Centre, El Corte Inglés (in Gran Vía), both of which are in the city centre.
On the other hand, if you prefer buying while you are going for a walk, you've got to go to Principe Street or Urzaiz Street. Here, you'll see Zara, Pull and Bear, Springfield and other small shops with a lot of variety of articles and incredible prices.

Shopping for Souvenirs

You can buy souvenirs in La Piedra which is an area near the transatlantic port. To get to La Piedra take the overhead pedrestrian footbridge from the Laxe Shopping Centre. When you reach the other side you are in La Piedra. Here you can buy Meigas (a type of witch, popular in Galician folklore), licor cafe (a liquor made with grapes and combined with coffee), and queimada bowls (a special earthenware cup used to "burn" the aguardiente). Queimada* is a traditional Galician drink.

But the best souvenir is a Galician T-shirt like the one in the photo below:
On the T-shirt, you can see a Galician tradition which is called "A Rapa das Bestas"









*There is a whole ceremony connected with drinking Queimada including a spell that should be recited when "burning" the aguardiente.