The New International Encyclopædia/Vich

VICH, vē̇k, or VIQUE. A city of the Province of Barcelona, Spain, on a hill-girt plain, 38 miles north of Barcelona (Map: Spain, G 2). Its cathedral, built about 1040, was repaired and modernized in 1803. Interesting pictures and sculptures are found in the Museum of Art and Archæology. Corn, fruit, and a poor wine are the products of the vicinity; the inhabitants are employed in weaving, and in the manufacture of hats, paper, and cotton goods. In the vicinity are mines of copper, coal, amethyst, topaz, and crystals. Population, in 1900, 11,146. Vich, the Roman Ausa, was afterwards called Ausona and Vicus Ausonensis, of the first part of which its present name is a corruption.