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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Annual from 23 April, 2024

Annual

03/10/2024 - 19/12/2024
From October to December, Compostela Cultura programmes three free guided tours to delve into the urban landscape of Santiago, its history and that of the people who populated it. The walks will take place on Thursdays from 19.00 hours and will last approximately 90 minutes. The registration...
03/10/2024 - 29/05/2025
Auditorio de Galicia
The Real Filarmonía de Galicia presents its new season with Baldur Brönnimann as artistic director and principal conductor, entitled 'Inconformistas.
24/10/2024 - 20/05/2025
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...
05/12/2024 - 31/05/2025
Compostela Cultura presents its Performing Arts programme for the first half of 2025.

Fiestas

20/01/2025 - 09/03/2025
Santiago de Compostela
Very close to Santiago: Boqueixón, A Estrada, Silleda, Touro, Vedra, Vila de Cruces
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” (generals) ride on horseback, dressed in colourful...

Gastronomy

13/02/2025 - 02/03/2025
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...

Cinema

04/03/2025 - 15/03/2025
19:00
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.  

Annual

14/04/2025 - 20/04/2025
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.

Cinema

21/04/2025 - 27/04/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
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 Salón Teatro and the Teatro...

Annual

Free
21/04/2025 - 27/04/2025
Parque de la Alameda
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.  

Theatre

26/05/2025 - 31/05/2025
Salón Teatro
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. At the same time, it provides its professionals with a...

Annual

09/06/2025 - 15/06/2025
The Jornadas de Música Contemporánea once again maintain their commitment to discovery and the avant-garde, with the aim of opening windows and listening opportunities to innovative sounds and emerging trends in contemporary music, giving them the space and value they deserve as...

Literature

09/06/2025 - 15/06/2025
Plaza de la Quintana
APPROXIMATE DATES The SELIC Reading Festival is a Galician literary event of international reference.  

Annual

01/07/2025 - 06/07/2025
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 sailing all over Galicia.
03/07/2025 - 30/08/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
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.   

Festival

Free
05/08/2025 - 31/08/2025
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

Theatre

07/09/2025 - 27/09/2025
Teatro Principal
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 selected by a jury and represent the most interesting proposals of...

Music

12/09/2025 - 20/09/2025
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, ...

Annual

01/10/2025 - 16/10/2025
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 can also enjoy the artistic heritage of the city.  
01/10/2025 - 05/10/2025
Curtocircuito, International Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023

For children

11/10/2025 - 20/10/2025
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 puppets.

Annual

20/10/2025 - 25/10/2025
Teatro Principal
APPROXIMATE DATES 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 rich world that, even today, is still...
30/10/2025 - 23/11/2025
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.
04/11/2025 - 09/11/2025
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 place during the second weekend of November, and its purpose is...

Cinema

10/11/2025 - 29/11/2025
Teatro Principal
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 atmosphere. +Info