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Encyclopedia Britannica



VICH

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 21 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VICH , a city of north-eastern Spain, in the province of
Barcelona
 , on the river Gurri, a small right-hand tributary of the Ter, and on the Granollers-Ripoll railway. Pop. (1900) 11,628. Vich is an ancient episcopal city, with narrow, ill-paved streets and many curious old houses irregularly built on the slope of a hill, which rises above one of the side valleys of the Ter basin. The
cathedral
 , founded about 1040 and built chiefly in the r4th
century
 , was to some extent modernized in 1803. Its
Gothic
  cloisters (1340) are remarkable for the beautiful
tracery
  in their windows, and there is a fine altar of sculptured
marble
 . Some valuable manuscripts are preserved in the library of the chapter-
house
 , and the museum contains an interesting archaeological collection, besides statuary, pictures, &c. The city is locally celebrated for the manufacture of sausages; other
industries
  include tanning and the weaving of linen and woollen fabrics.
Vich, the Ausa of the ancient geographers, was the
chief
  town of the Ausetani; in the middle ages it was called Ausona and Vicus Ausonensis, hence Vic de Osona, and simply Vich.


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