The Real Filharmonía de Galicia presents its 2025–2026 season, titled Historias. Coinciding with the celebration of its 30th anniversary, the programme highlights Galician talent, contemporary creation, and the projection of the orchestra towards the future.
The objectives of Contemporáneas, a new programme of the City Council of Santiago with the support of the Diputación de A Coruña, are to raise awareness of avant-garde music of the 20th and 21st centuries, to encourage the creation of new compositions and to establish a...
Very close to Santiago:
Boqueixón, A Estrada, Silleda, Touro, Vedra, Vila de Cruces
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The “Xenerais da Ulla” is the most outstanding feature of the Ulla region’s traditional Carnival. It has been held in the surroundings of Santiago since the first half of the 19th century: the “Xenerais”...
The new performing arts season of Compostela Cultura (January–June 2026) features 23 shows and 33 performances of theatre and dance, with a programme that explores memory, identity and emerging contemporary languages. The season is structured around three thematic focuses —Castelao...
The International University Theatre Festival of the USC opens in Compostela on February a window to the theatrical creations developed by university theatre companies at Galician, national and European level.
Santiago has a wide and diverse gastronomic offer based on the best Galician products and combining traditional and nouvelle cuisine. Santiago (é)Tapas, the city's tapas competition, is the perfect opportunity to discover the quality of the city's gastronomy, as it allows you to...
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The 4rd International Film and Education Festival (CINEDUCA) focuses this year on the figure of teachers, a central element in any educational process and a regular component of films dealing with educational issues.
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The International Ethnographic Film Festival of the Museo do Pobo Galego aims to present recent audiovisual works in the field of ethnography and visual anthropology.
The screenings take place in the Museo do Pobo Galego, the...
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De Lugares e Órganos returns at Easter with the intention of continuing to discover and revisit the spaces of the city and its musical memory in a programme featuring the organs of Compostela.
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Annual fair that is held in the city’s most emblematic park, where you can find bargains in a great variety of publications, including books about Santiago and Galicia.
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The banquet that brought together university students, workers and craftsmen around the same table on 2 March 1856 to demand equality and freedom, remains in the collective memory as one of the foundational events of the...
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Agadic organizes this Galician performing arts market festival. Through a selection of recently produced shows and a programme of parallel activities, this initiative takes the pulse of the current situation of the sector in Galicia....
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On the occasion of the celebration of International LGBTIQ+ Pride Day on 28 June, Compostela Diversa brings together a series of actions and activities to make Santiago a benchmark as a welcoming city, committed to global and...
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Atlántica, Festival Internacional de Narración Oral, was born in 2013 with headquarters in Santiago de Compostela with a clear vocation of being an encounter of voices and stories with an atlanticist profile and now it is...
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The cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between July and August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.
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During the summer, dance, circus, theatre, poetry, music, heritage, visual arts and much more in the streets of Compostela. All the programme at compostelacultura.gal
The WOS Festival is an annual indoor event that takes place in September in different spaces of high heritage value in Santiago de Compostela. The festival presents a broad multidisciplinary programme with a focus on electronic and avant-garde music, visual arts, film, installations, ...
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Amateur theatre The Agustín Magán Festival was born in 2001 with the purpose of promoting the best theatrical productions of the amateur federated companies. The works that participate each year, in total 6, are ...
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SELIC (Compostela Book Week) is the city’s main literary event. For several days, Plaza de la Quintana comes alive with books, authors and activities that celebrate reading through presentations, readings, workshops and events...
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Baroque music festival structured in concerts of diverse and illustrative themes, which represent a unique and complete musical experience, guaranteed by the quality of the musicians and the excellence of the music selected, where you...
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Puppeteers from several countries present their singular productions. Children’s shows, outdoor performances and evening shows. And also round tables, exhibitions and workshops… an entire range of activities related to...
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The Araguaney Foundation organizes this Arab cinema exhibition in Santiago de Compostela. Its main objective is to present the current situation of the Arab audiovisual industry and to offer a starting point for the discovery of this...
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Soul, blues, rock&roll, rhythm&blues, swing... The black music festival returns to Santiago every year with an extensive parallel programme for the enjoyment of all audiences.
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The Encounter of Compostela Illustrated Travel Journals, was created in 2016 by El Patito Editorial and the direction of Miguelanxo Prado, as a winter event in the city of Santiago, open to artists from all over the world. It takes...
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Festival held since 1988 throughout the entire month of November. Aimed exclusively at cinema buffs, it reviews the season’s best non-commercial cinema. Not to be missed in order to savour the city’s cultural...
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