Santa María Collegiate Church

Santa María Collegiate Church, it used to be an ogival temple, which reached the status of collegiate church at the end of the 15th century. About a century later it was burnt down by pirate Drake; it was demolished in 1813. That shrine's tympanum is kept at the Museum of Pontevedra. At the beginning of the 19th century, the architect Melchor de Prado created the current Neoclassical temple. There is kept the image of the Christ of Victory, who interceded so that Vigo's inhabitants could defeat Napoleon troops in 1809. From that moment onwards his image has been taken in procession -the most attended one in the city - every year.