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Music
16/05/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A folkloric microcosm where identities converge and community is created. Come and enjoy the intimacy, freshness, and personality of Abril’s music at the Biblioteca de Galicia on the occasion of Galician Literature Day.
Free
24/05/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Concert by Felisa Segade and Merchi Rodríguez for the Day of Galician Letters 2025
Free
20/06/2025 - 22/06/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Traditional music and dance will once again flood the Gaiás with muiñeiras and aturuxos, alalás and pandeiradas: the Serán returns in June 2025 to the Cidade da Cultura - framed in the programme of these Letras Galegas - and coinciding with the start of summer and...
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...
17/07/2025
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...
30/08/2025
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On Saturday, August 30, Monte Gaiás becomes a massive open-air club with Wake Up! no Gaiás, a 14-hour electronic music marathon from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Brazilian DJ Mochakk, one of the most exciting names in the global scene, will headline a night full of rhythm, cutting-edge...
21/10/2026
20:00 | Sala Capitol
No Te Va Gustar is preparing their biggest European tour yet, following years of international success and sold-out shows in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, and Zaragoza. With multiple collaborations and 9 Latin Grammy nominations, the band consolidates its European and international presence.
Theatre
08/05/2025 - 11/05/2025
This year, Escenas do cambio is more than ever committed to transcending the physical limits of territories and stages for avant-garde stage creation. From 8 to 11 May, the festival brings artists from eight countries (Spain, Germany, Australia, Belgium, South Korea, Cuba, Portugal and...
Free
17/10/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Oral storytelling performance for the Intangible Heritage Day.
Free
18/10/2025 - 19/10/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Converging Gazes transforms the second floor of the Museo Centro Gaiás into a living stage, where two actors, inspired by the lives and works of Castelao and Savelev, guide the audience through an immersive and participatory experience that innovatively combines theater and museum.
Free
25/10/2025 - 26/10/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Converging Gazes transforms the second floor of the Museo Centro Gaiás into a living stage, where two actors, inspired by the lives and works of Castelao and Savelev, guide the audience through an immersive and participatory experience that innovatively combines theater and museum.
08/03/2026
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
What would you do if you inherited a notebook from a close friend of Begoña Caamaño? In this play, we learn the story of a journalist who decides to record a live podcast to tell it. To mark International Women's Day, the Library of Galicia presents the world premiere of...
Free
27/03/2026
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Performance to mark Theatre Day at the Library of Galicia
07/05/2026 - 10/05/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Escenas del cambio 2026 proposes a program in which three interconnected currents beat: the drive of those who persist, that of those who reveal themselves, and that of those who reinvent. Revelesencia is the term—between revelation, effervescence, and essence—that...
For children
Evento virtual
05/02/2025 - 30/04/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Galiverso project launches a new virtual reality experience, Galiverso no corazón da pedra, which proposes a journey into the interior of our land to discover the natural, archaeological, ethnographic and historical wonders of our territory, where the stone, the one that shapes us...
Evento virtual
28/02/2025 - 26/10/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A virtual journey to where it all began
26/04/2025
18:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
At the City of Culture, we celebrate World Circus Day with Xampatito Pato and a show where puppetry and the circus world intertwine in a beautiful story where every cog turns to perfection. A surreal and dreamlike world, and a wordless tale that mesmerizes children and awakens the child that...
17/05/2025
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
As part of this year's Letras Galegas, dedicated to oral popular poetry and to the legacy of our cantareiras, the Gaiás invites you to a family workshop of traditional songs and small percussion instruments, where we’ll deconstruct the lyrics of the Galician tradition...
25/05/2025
12:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Oral storytelling, music, objects and new technologies to exalt the heritage of all the women honoured on the Día das Letras Galegas throughout time.
The Biblioteca de Galicia hosts the workshop Desde Rosalía hasta las Cantareiras, a multidisciplinary proposal aimed at children...
Free
14/06/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Biblioteca de Galicia hosts this theatrical production as part of the Castelao Year: a vibrant, humorous show directed by Fina Calleja and starring Mónica Caamaño and Cris Collazo. A piece created for children that invites them to take part in a magical, memory-filled story.
Free
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.
06/09/2025
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Cidade Imaxinaria returns to Gaiás to transform the hill into a dreamlike place: singing chairs, giant animals, impossible acrobatics, games to stop time, and little wonders for young and old to enjoy. On 6 September, from 5 pm to 10 pm, the little ones will take over the City of Culture...
13/09/2025
17:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Workshop “A galiña dos ovos de conto” | In commemoration of Literacy Day | Library of Galicia
27/09/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rhymes, puns, songs and lots of humour. Migallas Teatro brings the show Brincadeiras de lingua to the Library of Galicia. A production that combines storytelling, puppets and music to rediscover the enormous wealth of Galician popular children's literature, on the occasion of the European Day...
08/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mysterious challenges and intricate clues await in the corridors of the exhibition Castelao. Mirar por Galicia... Your mission? Solve them all to discover the hidden words and form the secret message that captures the spirit of the exhibition, as well as the life and thought of Castelao.
Free
22/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Musical show with live illustrations at the Library of Galicia for Music Day.
29/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mysterious challenges and intricate clues await in the corridors of the exhibition Castelao. Mirar por Galicia... Your mission? Solve them all to discover the hidden words and form the secret message that captures the spirit of the exhibition, as well as the life and thought of Castelao.
02/12/2025 - 06/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This Nadal no Gaiás, the Cidade da Cultura hosts Dreams of Argonauts, a magical setting filled with glowing spheres, inflatable corridors and family activities, including creative workshops, a theatre show inside the first “static” balloon, a museum escape room, a virtual...
Free
02/12/2025 - 04/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The special edition of Galiverso de Nadal returns to Cidade da Cultura, offering children the chance to virtually enter the Apalpador’s house and discover how this Galician Christmas figure lives.
21/02/2026
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This is the story of Mariña, a girl who, thanks to boredom, turns into an idea! Her thoughts take the form of a colorful pinwheel.
Free
14/03/2026
11:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Playing is growing and learning. Play is the language through which children discover the world and, above all, it's fun!
March brings Gaiás en xogo: a fun-filled family day that transforms the City of Culture into a huge space where boredom doesn't exist. With curiosity as your guide...
Free
31/03/2026 - 03/05/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Galiverso returns to the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia with an immersive experience that allows visitors to explore Galicia’s cultural and natural heritage through virtual reality. Visitors can walk through places such as the old town of Portomarín before it was...
Free
11/04/2026
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Travesía Unicornio comes to the Biblioteca de Galicia for International Children’s Book Day, presented by Teatro Ghazafellos.
Literature
27/02/2026
20:00 | Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
AC. O Galo presents the book Personaxes da Galiza Medieval IV, a new volume in the series through which the association continues contributing to the recovery of Galicia’s historical memory. This edition explores the centuries when Galicia was a kingdom of its own, shaped by a...
Cinema
27/02/2026 - 01/03/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Pequefilmes is celebrating its 10th anniversary and returning to Gaiás to celebrate! On the weekend of February 27 and 28 and March 1, you can enjoy the best children's cinema at the Cidade da Cultura.
Presentations
21/02/2026
11:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The session “Cartography in 20 Strokes. Micro-Presentation Round”, part of the Enreda-Delas. I Professional Meeting of Women in Urban Art program, provides a dynamic space where artists, managers, and researchers showcase their work through pecha-kucha presentations, highlighting...
Courses and workshops
07/02/2026
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
In the workshop From Wood to Cloth, we will follow the reverse path of the artist, printing floral motifs, plant shapes and organic elements onto fabric—an accessible, contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional pañuelo aesthetic present in Asorey’s work.
27/02/2026 - 28/02/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A veces está bien perderse is a performing arts laboratory for dissident bodies, conceived as a space for research, play, and creation based on the participant’s own body and identity. It will take place on February 27 and 28 in three sessions led by Magda Labarga at Espazo...
Sport
17/05/2025
10:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On Saturday, May 17, 2025, the XI Carreira Camiño das Letras will take place—a race that combines sport, culture, and symbolism.
07/06/2025
11:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On Saturday, June 7, Holi Gaiás and Peque Holi return to fill the Cidade da Cultura with color and give spring the farewell it deserves with a fun, sporty event for all audiences. The seventh edition of this festive race is already underway, offering a joyful June Saturday for families...
Fiestas
16/02/2026
16:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
In this 2026 Carnival, the museum’s sculptures come to life, step down from their pedestals, and organise a grand dance. What would the sculptures look like if they could move and dance? How would they dress? What colours would they wear? This year, we invite children to reimagine...
Others
27/09/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Horizontes Errantes (Wandering Horizons) is an artistic pilgrimage between Germany and Spain, a project of art in motion in which Laura Arís and Jakob Jautz transform the experience of walking into a theatrical creation of contemporary dance, music and physical theatre.
Free
09/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This Sunday, 9 November, join us for the Open Day of the VI Fairway at the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela. Admission is free and the day features a trade-fair space with a wide range of exhibitors —destinations, hotels, travel agencies, service companies— and...
28/11/2025 - 29/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Xuventude na onda, the major event that connects young Galician talent with innovation, science, and culture. A space for inspiration, learning, and networking.
Congresses and meetings
Free
20/11/2025 - 21/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Art, Creation, and New Technologies. New Audiences, Algorithms, and a Space Without Territory
What is culture when everything changes?
Exhibitions
29/10/2024 - 20/04/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The exhibition Tattoo. Art under the skin follows tattoo artists and tattooed people through the ages and across continents to explore the confluences that have made tattooing a form of artistic expression and a global phenomenon.
31/10/2024 - 18/05/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This exhibition, through more than 100 bibliographic pieces, engravings, manuscripts and other materials brought by the authors on display, highlights the value of fantasy literature both originally written in Galician and translated into our language.
11/03/2025 - 31/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Arquivo de Galicia opens the exhibition Women artists: learning the trade, which reflects the difficult path that many had to face in order to achieve social recognition of their creative capacity, as well as access to artistic education.
08/04/2025 - 07/09/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rafael Úbeda has been painting for seven decades. The exhibition Rafael Úbeda. Retrospective view offers a complete overview of his creative career, delving into the most important milestones of his work and the representative pieces that marked each stage of his career.
Free
16/05/2025 - 30/09/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
An exhibition to focus on all the women who kept alive the poetry and music of oral tradition, and also to know how their collection and enhancement evolved over time.
17/05/2025 - 18/05/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Activities in celebration of International Museum Day 2025
05/06/2025 - 23/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Plastic biontes is an intervention in the Hejduk Towers that aims to establish a dialogue, through rubbish, between the city of culture and the city of Santiago. The towers as beacons, as social reference points, as symbols that unite history, memory and the possibility of a future yet to be...
12/06/2025 - 02/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
BORIS SAVELEV. Viewfinder, a way of looking is the most extensive retrospective to date of the photographer Boris Savelev (Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 1947), an award-winning artist at PHotoEspaña 2024 whose gaze was forged in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
26/06/2025 - 11/01/2026
(Castelao. Looking around Galicia) Castelao. Mirar por Galicia represents the most advanced technological-cultural experience to date on Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, a journey through the personal, literary, artistic and political evolution of one of the most outstanding...
28/08/2025 - 11/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Phygital Land explores the construction of virtual space from the physical dimension, reflecting on how we perceive the digital and the tangible when both worlds intertwine. The term phygital—which combines physical and digital—defines a hybrid experience that runs throughout the...
Free
22/10/2025 - 08/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Exhibition organized by the Galician Brain Injury Association (Asociación Daño Cerebral Galicia). Subtitled “Acquired brain injury, where lost things are made right again,” it features images by Fuco Reyes of the participants in our Artistic and Creative Laboratory.
28/10/2025 - 05/04/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
It is the final major exhibition project of the year at the Cidade da Cultura. A show that delves, from a contemporary perspective, into the complex aesthetic world of the artist who managed to synthesise the new European sculptural movements with Galician roots.
Free
28/11/2025 - 03/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Photography workshops and exhibition organised by Fotoforum Compostela
26/02/2026 - 06/09/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
As estacións do ano is a unique contemporary art exhibition that invites visitors to open their senses, walk slowly, and immerse themselves in each work. Based on a concept of spatial immersion, the Museo Centro Gaiás becomes a space where art is experienced through...
04/03/2026
10:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The exhibition Expanded World: Between the Physical and the Virtual explores the limits of physical reality and digital simulation and delves into the effects of the explosion of virtual worlds on our lives.
26/03/2026 - 31/12/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Archivo de Galicia opens the exhibition Mulleres sobranceiras. Luísa Villalta. Music, Word, and Commitment, thanks to the recent donation of the author’s personal archive by her family. This donation makes the Archivo one of the key institutions for the study of...
Free
04/06/2026 - 29/11/2026
10:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Voices of the Pacific brings together more than 200 objects from the collections of the British Museum, home to one of the most significant holdings of Oceanic art worldwide. It presents a considered exploration of the cultures of the Pacific, placing its peoples at the heart of the...
Annual
Free
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.
Free
05/11/2026 - 08/11/2026
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION.
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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