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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

29/03/2025
19:00 | Colegiata Santa María a Real do Sar
Activities for all the family, with dance workshops and musical performances to celebrate the arrival of spring. 
03/07/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
04/07/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
10/07/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
11/07/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
18/07/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
31/07/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
01/08/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
07/08/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
08/08/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
21/08/2025
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Atardecer no Gaiás is an open‑air concert series hosted by Cidade da Cultura . Free of charge, it’s designed to celebrate summer sunsets in Santiago de Compostela with a diverse musical lineup—including rap, neo‑traditional, indie pop, electronic, and tropical rhythms. Held...
03/09/2025
19:30 | Hotel NH Collection Santiago de Compostela *****
noitiNHAs 2025 returns with its 8th edition to light up Santiago’s nights with live music and unique flavors. This cultural series, held at the NH Collection hotel in Santiago, blends vibrant concerts with top-tier culinary offerings, creating a full sensory experience. Under the slogan...
27/09/2025
16:00
Casa do Rock, together with the San Roque A Paz Children’s Choir and the CMUS Reberiano Soutullo Band from Ponteareas, invite you to participate in the fifth edition of the Macro Performance.
18/06/2026 - 20/06/2026
Actuaciones en el Monte do Gozo
O Son do Camiño 2026 will take place on June 18, 19, and 20 at the iconic Monte do Gozo in Santiago de Compostela.

Gastronomy

06/08/2025
20:30 | Hotel NH Collection Santiago de Compostela *****
noitiNHAs 2025 returns with its 8th edition to light up Santiago’s nights with live music and unique flavors. This cultural series, held at the NH Collection hotel in Santiago, blends vibrant concerts with top-tier culinary offerings, creating a full sensory experience. 

For children

28/06/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A mountain of cardboard to recycle, a public place, and a bunch of creative children. These are the ingredients of the Cardboard Challenge, a playful and educational activity that encourages creativity through playing with used cardboard. In this ephemeral intervention, the Central Square of...
02/07/2025
20:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Beatlemania concert by Rock en familia. Free concert as part of the cycle Verán no Gaiás 2025.
09/07/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
An afternoon at the lake. Music, theatre and open-air games | Verán en familia 2025 | Gaiás in Green
22/07/2025
12:00 | Parque de Eugenio Granell (O Paxonal)
Eugenio Granell Park will host, on July 22nd, a day of fun dedicated specifically to the children of Compostela: the Festa Pícara. This event is part of the Apostle Festival program and will feature a variety of activities including theatre, music, puppetry, workshops in the local...
05/01/2026
17:30 | Plaza del Obradoiro
The Three Wise Men will walk through the streets of the city to the Praza do Obradoiro.
10/10/2026 - 18/10/2026
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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...

Fairs

28/11/2025 - 05/01/2026
As every year, locals and visitors can do their Christmas shopping at the 70 stalls of decoration, gourmet food and crafts (jewellery, wood, ceramics, glass, leather, toys, textiles, original watering can, design ...) of the market in addition to the wide range of local shops in the ...

Festival

Free
03/08/2026 - 28/08/2026
  ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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

Literature

02/10/2026 - 11/10/2026
Plaza de la Quintana
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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...

Social events

04/06/2026 - 30/06/2026
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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...

Sport

31/12/2025
17:30 | Plaza del Obradoiro
The San Silvestre is the last athletic event of the year in Santiago de Compostela, a sporting spectacle that will enliven the day from 17:30 hours in the best possible setting: the Praza do Obradoiro. 

Fiestas

24/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
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.  
23/06/2025
The neighbourhoods of Compostela join in the celebration of the San Xoán festivities, offering a wide range of activities for everyone.
23/06/2025
Plaza de Mazarelos
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...
25/06/2025 - 29/06/2025
Five days of music, dance, theatre, big-heads, reading, storytelling, science and much more in one of Santiago's most unique neighbourhoods. 
18/07/2025 - 31/07/2025
The festivities dedicated to the Apostle, the patron saint of Santiago, of Galicia and of all of Spain, last for about a fortnight. This festival combines religious and official solemnity, tradition and entertainment, which turn the entire city into a large fiesta. July 24th and...
31/12/2025
13:00
On 31 December, the pubs of the Cidade Vella Cultural Association will celebrate New Year’s Eve in the streets of the historic centre with a special programme starting at 1:00 pm and running throughout the day. Free activities, music and a festive atmosphere will turn the Old Town into an...
17/01/2026 - 22/02/2026
Santiago de Compostela
Very close to Santiago: Boqueixón, A Estrada, Silleda, Touro, Vedra, Vila de Cruces
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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”...
07/02/2026
19:00
The natural region of a Ulla features an original rural carnival, whose record goes back to the mid-19th century.
08/02/2026
19:00
The parish of Angrois in Santiago de Compostela celebrates its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance.
14/02/2026
19:00
The parish of Aríns in Santiago de Compostela celebrates on february 14 its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance.    
15/02/2026
19:00
On the afternoon of February 15, the parish of O Eixo in Santiago de Compostela celebrates its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance, which involves a stagin where different characters take part.    
22/05/2026 - 24/05/2026
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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...

Guided visits

23/03/2025
11:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
 With the start of spring, at the Cidade da Cultura we are joining in the celebrations for International Forest Day and World Water Day - 21st and 22nd March, respectively - with an interpretative walk through the green spaces of the forest to discover the fauna and flora that live there.
18/10/2025
12:00
Tour organized by the Cultural Association O Galo and led by Antonia Pérez, as part of the series Santiago de Compostela 1923-1936.

Others

28/11/2025 - 06/01/2026
18:00 | Plaza de la Quintana
At sunset, the Quintana becomes a canvas of stars, a Campus Stellae.
20/12/2025
12:00 | Plaza del Obradoiro
On Saturday, December 20, a new edition of the Apalpanoelada Motera will take place at Obradoiro Square in Santiago de Compostela. From 12:00, the gathering of motorcycling Santa Clauses will begin, followed by a route through the streets of Compostela. This year, non-perishable food will also...

Annual

22/07/2011 - 26/07/2011
00:00
Folk music from Galicia –Celtic- and the rest of the world. Roots and tradition, innovation and experimentation come together in the city squares. Organizer: Concello de Santiago.  
Free
02/05/2026 - 10/05/2026
Parque de la Alameda
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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.  
02/07/2026 - 27/08/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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.