In 2004, the autonomous north western Spanish region of Galicia made a bold move to attract international business by building a colossal new venue offering 428,000sqm not far from the region’s capital. Feira International de Galicia [FIG], in Pontevedra near Santiago de Compostela, was created in a time of European prosperity, a project of Manuel Fraga Iribarne, then president of the Autonomous Governm...