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O Porriño is a town and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Vigo.
As an industrial town in the Vigo metropolitan area, it has an important economic significance. One of its main industries is granite production; the variety of granite produced in O Porriño is known as Rosa Porriño ("Porriño Pink"), which is exported from the Port of Vigo mainly to Italy, Japan and China.
On 9 September 2016, a Portuguese train travelling from Vigo to Porto derailed near O Porriño railway station, killing the driver and at least three other people on board.
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La casa consistorial de Porriño es un edificio ubicado en Porriño (provincia de Pontevedra), sede del ayuntamiento del municipio homónimo. Corresponde a un edificio construido en el periodo que va desde 1919 hasta el 1924 por el arquitecto Antonio Palacios Ramilo.
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El castillo de Cans (en gallego: castelo de Cans), también conocido como castillo de Miravel, es un yacimiento medieval emplazado sobre un otero granítico a 358 metros de altitud, situada en la parroquia del mismo nombre del municipio de Porriño, en Galicia, España.
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6 plans to experience O Porriño on the move, not just passing through.
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Places and plans from OpenStreetMap (ODbL): what is mapped within the municipal boundary, by name. If something is missing, it can be added there and will appear here in the next update.
What there really is in the village and around it, with distances. If an activity isn't on this list, we haven't found it nearby.
