WFE
Cultural Effects
Fishing in Vigo is about history and culture. Links with the sea are ancestral. In 1985 and in response to enormous popular expectation in the town, the Organizing Committee decided to take the exhibition onto the streets of Vigo and out to the suburbs. It did this by bringing the Band of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 2nd's Welsh Guard to parade through the streets and parks and local artists were also summoned to participate in the event. World Fishing Exhibition in Vigo had become a business centre, a forum for debate and now a cultural happening. 
Publications
The superb diversity of gastronomic delights in Vigo and throughout Galicia have been described in the different Gastronomic Guides edited on occasion of the World Fishing Exhibition. The beauty of Vigo has been extolled in the pages of the now classic, Vigo, Stella Maris.
Permanent Mark
Vigo Airport, the Galician Maritime Museum and the Free Port of Vigo are hosts to great Works created specifically for the Exhibition.
FROM VIGO
FOR THE WORLD
FOR THE WORLD
The well-known Galician artist Isaac Díaz-Pardo had, since the Vigo 1973 exhibition, designed pieces of ceramic and commemorative stamps for the World Fishing Exhibition.
The Band of
the Welsh Guards
the Welsh Guards
Since its first visit in 1985, the Band of the Welsh Guards by kind permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2nd, has paraded at the show and through the streets offering their traditional and colourful pomp and great festive atmosphere to Vigo and the Galician Community.
Galicia Square
Francisco de Sales, a landscape designer from Vigo had, since 1985, designed a garden square for the Exhibition were visitors and exhibitors alike could escape from the crowds and take a well earned rest.
© 2008 | Comité Ejecutivo Exposición Mundial de la Pesca