2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/128543Various aspects including the construction and the symmetries of Abelian Chern-Simons vortices are reviewed. Extended version of the Lectures delivered at NIKHEF (Amsterdam), July 2006. Typos corrected, some refernces added.51 pages, 9 figures. Lectures delivered at NIKHEF (Amsterdam), July 2006High Energy Physics - Theorytext