O Vicedo, Lugo
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O Vicedo is a municipality located in the NW coast extreme of the Province of "Lugo", Galiza, Spain.
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Parishes
It is composed of the following "parroquias" or "freguesias" (parishes):
As Negradas, Cabanas, Mosende, (San Román de) O Val, O Vicedo, Riobarba, Suegos,
Municipal Division
In the Middle Age the parishes that now compose all the municipality of O Vicedo belonged to different Lords, being called their possessions jurisdictions (As Negradas, Galdo, Viveiro, etc).
With the Constitution of 1812 the first municipalities were created. The territory that now occupies the municipality of O Vicedo were divided in to 3 municipalities: As Negradas, Val and Cabanas.
A new municipal division was defined in 1835 when the present territory of the municipality was distributed in to the following councils: Galdo (O Vicedo, Negradas and Vale) and Viveiro (Suegos, Mosende, Riobarba and Cabanas). This division lasted only 5 years and in 1840 the municipality of Riobarba appeared, reflected in the Government report on the Province of Lugo which defined the present parishes. In 1952 the Civil Governor of Lugo, moved the municipality capital to O Vicedo
Corruption
O Vicedo was famous in the 90's for Isaac Prado Villapol who was considered one of the most corrupt rulers in Spain. He belonged to the PP and was condemned, along with the rest of PP municipality rulers, for corruption. José Jesús Novo. The current municipality ruler avoided the condemnation by alleging to be ignorant.
Name origin
O Vicedo seems to have its base in the Latin word "vitiates". Therefore, it can be translated as the place where the "vice" abounds, which is an annual grass of the family of the Papilionaceae with climbing stem that abounds in coastal zones throughout all Europe.
Miscellanious Data
- Inhabitants: 2228 (2003)
- Extension: 76 km²
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