Cesantes is a small town in

Redondela Redondela is a municipality in the province of Pontevedra (province), Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the Comarcas of Galicia, comarca of Vigo (comarca), Vigo. The most famous icons of the ...

, in the

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...

part of the

Vigo Metropolitan Area Vigo Metropolitan Area located in Galicia (Spain) is formed by the city of Vigo and the surrounding municipalities of Baiona, Pontevedra, Baiona, Cangas, Pontevedra, Cangas, Fornelos de Montes, Gondomar, Spain, Gondomar, Moaña, Mos (Spain), Mos, N ...

and located in Galicia, an Autonomous Community in northwestern

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

Population

Its population in 2005 was 3,420 (1,747 men and 1,673 women) and its extension is 12 km. Most of the people work in

tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...

fishing Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment (Freshwater ecosystem, freshwater or Marine ecosystem, marine), but may also be caught from Fish stocking, stocked Body of water, ...

Celebrities of Cesantes

* Iago Bouzón:

Recreativo de Huelva Real Club Recreativo de Huelva, S.A.D. () is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football club based in Huelva, Andalucia, Spain. Founded on 23 December 1889, they are the oldest football club in Spain, and currently play in , holding home ...

football player *

Mendinho Mendinho, also ''Meendinho'', ''Mendiño'' and ''Meendiño'', was a medieval Iberian poet. Nothing is known about Mendinho except by inference. Scholars generally assume from the reference to the shrine of ''San Simión'' (in the modern Isle of ...

: Medieval poet

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Towns in Spain