| To commemorate the victory over the French, the city of Vigo celebrates the Fiesta de la Reconquista (Conquest Festival).
Other important festivals in the city, held in the summer months, are:
• 5th to 9th July: Fiestas de la Consolación
• 13th to 16th July: Fiestas del Carmen
• The last week in July and the first in August: Fiestas de Verano (Summer Festival), with large musical performances in the Parque de Castreleros.
• 4th August: Procesión del Cristo de la Victoría (Procession of Christ of Victory)
• 16th August: Romería de San Roque, a tradition dating back to the 18th century.
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