it is also considered as a Fiesta of International Tourist Interest of Spain since 2013. Vivero has a great number of cofradías such as the Virgin of the Rosario, the Christ of the Piety, the Seven Last Words and . The city is also home to processions such as the Encounter that show the Calvary of Christ with religious images, the Unnailed and St. Funeral that show the descent of the Cross to continue with the procession of St. Funeral, the Last Supper with the pasos of the supper, Horto, Ecce Homo, the Nazarene and Our Lady of Sorrows - Sufferings, the Passion, the Seven Words, the Piety and the Virgin at the foot of the Cross, a silent procession. Rapa das Bestas This festivity takes place the first Sunday of July except that the first of July coincides on Sunday then it celebrates the second Sunday in the Buio Mountains. It is an old tradition according to which people cut the horsehairs, brand the horses and break in them. Patronal feasts It celebrates on 15 August in Saint Roque and the Virgin's honour. The pilgrimage of Naseiro (The pilgrimage of the good meal) It celebrates the fourth Sunday of August. Saint James' day It celebrates on 25 July at the Port of Celeiro with a marine procession through the estuary of Viveiro. Others In the end of July or in the beginning of August, a music festival called Resurrection Fest, focused on metal, hardcore and punk is held in the city since 2006. Notable people Gómez Pérez das Mariñas (1539–1593), politician, diplomat and military officer, colonial governor of the Philippines Nicomedes Pastor Díaz (1811–1863), politician and Romantic writer Antón Vilar Ponte (1881–1936), writer and politician Jesús Cora y Lira (1890–1969), admiral and Carlist politician Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), surrealist painter Lois Tobío Fernández (1906–2003), journalist and philologist Carlos Oroza (born 1933), poet Town twinning Lannion, France Old Havana, Cuba Perth, Australia References External links Ferrol-San Cibrao Port Authority Municipalities in the Province of Lugo Port cities and towns on the Spanish Atlantic coast