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 galeguismo.    

The Festa do Banquete de Conxo will count on the tourist train, which will be available to citizens and visitors for free transfers between the Alameda, in the city centre, and the neighbourhood of Conxo.  

The 2025 Ascensión Festivities will fill Compostela with music, activities, and tradition during the last week of May. This celebration, one of the most beloved by the people of Santiago, returns with open-air concerts, children’s shows, traditional markets, fairground rides in the...

This is a day of diverse music, activities for all audiences and a varied gastronomic offer within the framework of the Ascension Festivities 2025.

New edition of the local commerce festival with music and activities for the whole family.

A traditional festival where the San Martiño Pinario neighborhood travels back to 1975. A day full of celebration, with parades, vermouth hour, a tute card tournament, traditional games for children and adults, live music and lots of dancing.

The neighbourhood of Vistalegre celebrates its traditional festival of San Xoán from June 21st to 23rd.

The members of the Cultural Association Cidade Vella have prepared various activities in several squares of Compostela’s Old Town to celebrate the most magical night of the year. There will be music, sardiñadas (grilled sardines), snacks, quitameigallos (ritual...

June 23rd, the summer solstice, is the magical eve of “San Juan” (St. John’s Day), an ancient fiesta that is present in all cultures, marking the beginning of the summer, the time of greatest sunlight, the longest day in the year. 

The neighbourhoods of Compostela join in the celebration of the San Xoán festivities, offering a wide range of activities for everyone.

Coinciding with the Festivities of San Xoán, which fill the city with colourful and magical bonfires, Santiago welcomes a new edition of the festival that includes in its programme a variety of activities and workshops for the enhancement of Galician rites and traditions of this time...

Five days of music, dance, theatre, big-heads, reading, storytelling, science and much more in one of Santiago's most unique neighbourhoods.