Vic

Vic is the capital of the comarca of Osona, inside the Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain. Vic's area is 69 km from Barcelona and 60 km or 37 mi from Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Vic's position has made it one of the most essential cities in important Catalonia. Vic is of historical starting place. In past instances it became known as Ausa by means of the Romans. Iberian coins bearing this name had been discovered there. The Visigoths known as it Ausona. Sewage caps on sidewalks around the town will even study Vich, an antique shape of the call.

During the 8^th and 9^th centuries, Vic sat inside the Spanish Marches that separated Frankish and Islamic forces. It was destroyed in 788 all through a Muslim incursion. Afterwards simplest one quarter turned into rebuilt, which become known as Vicus Ausonensis vicus is Latin for city borough, from which the name Vic become derived. It became repopulated via Wilfred the Hairy in 878 who gained manage over the high a part of the town and gave up the bottom part to the bishop to construct the episcopal see.

From then on, the metropolis turned into ruled via the remember of Barcelona and by means of the bishop of Vic. For centuries, the city's primary commercial and industrial interest was a fabric industry, now nearly disappeared. Nowadays, the pillars of the financial system are agriculture and other alimentary industries, and production. The town is well-known for its sausages and different pork derivatives, especially fuet, a skinny cured sausage. The making of cured sausages and cold meats stems from the long way of life of pig farming within the Vic simple.