Trips and resevations - XVIII Congreso Internacional de Turismo

How to get there

By private car or by bus, there is a good infrastructure web which eases the trip. The main Galician cities, Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo are connected by motorways within 200 km. The A-52 places the city 4 hours from Madrid, will the second Portuguese city, Oporto, is less than 2 hours away.

There are three main highways arriving to Vigo:

Madrid and Vigo are connected by the Autovía del Noroeste (A-6) and the Autovía das Rías Baixas (A-52). They are 667 kilometers away that are made in an average of six hours.
To get to Vigo from Portugal you must take the A3 that connects Oporto, Lisbon and Braga with the Spanish border and links there to the AP-9 and A-55 that will leave you in the center of Vigo.
To move by car through Galicia the best option is the Autopista del Atlántico (AP9), which links Vigo and A Coruña to Pontevedra and Santiago de Compostela.

You can reach Vigo by train from Madrid, Barcelona, Ourense, Pontevedra, Santiago, A Coruña, Ponferrada, León, Bilbao, Alicante and Oporto. To travel from Madrid there are three options: the Intercity train, the Alvia train and the Hotel Train.

Vigo has two train stations, both in the city center:

URZAIZ: in Plaza de la Estación, for AVE (high-speed railway) from Coruña-Santiago
GUIXAR: in the street Areal, for remaining trains

See the combinations on Renfe website.

Vigo Airport is located 12 kilometers from the city center. In July 2017 it has planned the connections of the following companies.

Air Europa: Madrid
Air Nostrum: Alicante, Bilbao, Londres, Málaga, Mallorca, Menorca, París, Rome, Seville and Tenerife
Iberia: Madrid
TAP: Lisbon
Volotea: Mallorca, Valencia
Vueling: Barcelona

Peinador | AENA | Vigo Airport