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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

20/10/2023
20:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Library of Galicia celebrates once again the Women Writers' Day and this time it does it with a poetic musical show, Ultraluz, by Ledicia Costas and Amaro Ferreiro. The piece is based on the poetry book of the same name by the writer from Vigo, with which she won the 20th Afundación...
29/10/2023 - 26/11/2023
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Cidade da Cultura presents this autumn music cycle, Ópticas Contemporáneas. A música reborda o pentagrama, consisting of three concerts linked to classical music from an innovative and contemporary perspective.
03/11/2023
20:00 | Museo Centro Gaiás
Concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Gaiás Centre Museum
16/12/2023
17:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
To celebrate the Christmas holidays, the Biblioteca de Galicia is organising a violin and viola concert in which students from the En Clave Método Suzuki educational centre will reinterpret the tale of the Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky's music will be linked to illustrations and narration...
25/05/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Biblioteca de Galicia commemorates once again the Día das Letras Galegas with a specific program that pays its own tribute to the protagonist of the event in 2024, Luísa Villalta. 
Free
21/06/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Budiño presents ‘Branca Vela’ to celebrate Music Day 2024.
04/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela. 
05/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
11/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
12/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
18/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
19/07/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
01/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
02/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
08/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
09/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
15/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
16/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
22/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
23/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
30/08/2024
21:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
15/09/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The ensemble Música Práctica inaugurates the cycle Ópticas contemporáneas 2024 of the Cidade da Cultura on Sunday 15 September with a journey through the most recent musical creation that culminates in a premiere work by Fernando Buide, specifically written for the...
18/10/2024
20:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mudar la piel is a work in which images, sounds and words are the vehicles for transmitting to the audience aspects of today's society that are also the object of research for anthropology and the social sciences. This unique piece will be performed by its creators, the teacher and researcher...
16/11/2024
20:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Real Filharmonía de Galicia closes the cycle Ópticas contemporáneas 2024 of the Cidade da Cultura on November 16th with a special concert in which it will perform, under the baton of Baldur Brönnimann, the work The Four Seasons Recomposed, by Max Richter. In this...

Theatre

03/05/2024 - 05/05/2024
Escenas do cambio, the Cidade da Cultura's festival of theatre, dance and art in action, celebrates its tenth edition from 3 to 5 May 2024. Directed by dancer and choreographer Kirenia Martínez, this anniversary is conceived as a celebration of the festival's trajectory and its...
29/12/2023
18:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Granada-based company Títeres Etcétera brings to the Gaiás this stage show with music, puppets and projections based on the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen that tells the fable of that duckling, different from the others, who turned out to be a great swan.
02/02/2024 - 03/02/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Hamlet, o de Cunqueiro, is the title of a multidisciplinary proposal that mixes two apparently unrelated disciplines: theatre and video games. It also mixes Galician and Brazilian cultures, using as a vehicle an extract from O incerto señor don Hamlet, by Álvaro Cunqueiro, which...
23/02/2024 - 24/02/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The diptych Mythical but secondary closes the 2024 series Clásicas desfeitas by delving into some of the lesser-known names of the Greek classics to bring them to the present through the particular gaze of Antón Reixa and Antela Cid. Polícrates, Ismene, Crisótemis...

For children

18/11/2023
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
In the year 2050, climate and pollution will lead to the disappearance of crops on Earth. The last hope for feeding humanity is a small group of researchers. They will have to face numerous challenges to find the last viable seeds and grow them under extreme conditions. So, if you want to take...

Cinema

26/01/2024 - 28/01/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This January the best cinema for children returns to the Cidade da Cultura.

For children

12/02/2024
16:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Come and enjoy the carnival at Gaiás with the ENTROIDO NA HORTA! This year the Gaiás carnival is set in the vegetable garden, so you are free to walk in the cabbages, become a potato or whatever you can think of for this day. We want to see your originality, although you can also...
17/02/2024
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
To commemorate Mother Language Day, the Library of Galicia brings a proposal in the form of a game in which we will speak in our language, in other languages and in languages that we invent.
24/02/2024
17:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of Rosalía Day, which is celebrated every 23 February to coincide with the date of birth of the writer, the Library of Galicia is organising an activity centred on her figure and focused on children, which will take place the following day, Saturday 24.
09/03/2024
11:00 | Museo Centro Gaiás
[De]construirnos is our proposal to commemorate this 8M, International Women's Day, with a fun game to break down stereotypes and build an egalitarian society for all. In this great gymkhana by teams, the Gaiás Centre Museum becomes a giant board and the participants become the pieces of...
20/04/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Cidade da Cultura wants to celebrate, as every year, the Circus Day with all of you. On this occasion, the show comes from the hand of the company La Finestra Nou Circ, which will stage the fun show Royal Circ.  
11/05/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Library of Galicia commemorates once again the Día das Letras Galegas with a specific program to pay tribute to Luísa Villalta, the protagonist of the event in 2024.
15/06/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A celebration of the best baroque music, a show full of humour where the characters, the music, the comic theatre and the scenic spaces compose a mosaic that works perfectly for the enjoyment of children, but also for adults. Píscore Teatro brings to the Gaiás Molto Barroco, a...
03/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Based on visual poetry, Karpaty is transformed into a show full of humour and hope. A prestigious Russian circus sets out on a journey fleeing from war in order to fulfil its dream: to show its art to the public once again.
10/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Crashh_Xiri is a show with its own language: ‘crasshonês’. The latest production of the Crashh, a show with energy, humour and a contagious rhythm that brings together the group's entire career to bring together children, families and the general public.
17/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A new Rock en Familia show is coming to Gaiás, a space in which to share and sing the best of Spanish pop music from the eighties and nineties: from Alaska to Radio Futura, Nacha Pop or Coque Malla.
31/07/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Designed for audiences of all ages with the aim of generating community around the performing arts, De Vilatriste a Vilalegre combines acting and puppet theatre with the world of comics as a reference.
07/09/2024
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A Saturday afternoon to close the summer in style. 13 proposals among which we find fixed shows, itinerant shows, play areas and installations by companies from Portugal, Madrid, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. 
21/09/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of the commemoration of the European Day of Languages, the Library of Galicia is organising the workshop As letras viaxeiras, given by Marisa Irimia. In this activity, children will be able, through music and plastic arts, to immerse themselves in the diversity of other...

Cinema

02/02/2024
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
When someone dies, there are always questions left unanswered. Here we look at the life and work of Xesús 'Chichi' Campos, pioneer of Galician comics, anti-Franco fighter, gallery owner and humorist. In short, one of the most forgotten figures of Galician culture. When he died, he left...

Sport

08/06/2024
11:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On Saturday, June 8, the Holi Gaiás returns to the Cidade da Cultura and comes with news, because we have prepared a Peque Holi for children between 4 and 9 years old! The sixth edition of this fun, family and festive race is already underway so that you can enjoy with your family or...
14/09/2024
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Obstacle races return to the Cidade da Cultura. A six-kilometre route in which participants will have to overcome more than 30 obstacles. The race is aimed at both high-level athletes and a more popular profile. 

Guided visits

Evento virtual
21/10/2022 - 31/12/2023
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
El Galiverso empieza aquí [Galiverso starts here] is an initiative by the Xunta de Galicia that uses immersive technologies and virtual reality with the aim of giving a new twist to how we showcase our tangible and intangible heritage (artistic, industrial,...

Others

15/12/2023 - 07/01/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The special edition of the Galiverso de Nadal returns to the Gaiás, which the youngest members of the family will especially enjoy, entering virtually into the house of the Apalpador to see how this figure of Galician Christmas lives. This interactive proposal in virtual reality will...
15/12/2023 - 07/01/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The winter solstice, the longest night of the year, marks the end of darkness and the return of light. This magical moment, celebrated by many cultures, signified the triumph of life over death, it was a moment of celebration and recollection in which a tree was placed under a roof reminiscent...
15/12/2023 - 07/01/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This year in our Nadal no Gaiás we press the pause button in the hustle and bustle of these dates to return to the origins of the festival of the winter solstice, wait for the return of light and celebrate a more sustainable Christmas, moving away from consumerism and the material and...
16/12/2023 - 04/01/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The phrase from Momo, the unforgettable novel by Michael Ende, encapsulates and sums up the philosophy of these family play sessions, where children and adults explore together using unstructured materials and light tables. Pieces of wood, shreds of cloth, sticks and stones, light and shadow,...
26/12/2023 - 31/12/2023
11:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This Christmas, the Cidade da Cultura invites you to a special programme of guided tours to understand the artistic and aesthetic origins behind the design of the Gaiás buildings. In this innovative tour, full of references to the plastic creation of the 20th century, we will decipher...
02/01/2024 - 07/01/2024
11:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
In this treasure hunt, halfway between an exploration game and a quiz, the Cidade da Cultura challenges families to discover even the most hidden secrets of the Gaiás buildings. We will delve into the way they are built, but also into their most amusing curiosities, in a playful way...

Conferences

08/03/2024
18:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of the commemoration of Women's Day, the Library of Galicia, together with the CSIC, is organising a relaxed and interactive conversation between the attendees and a researcher, Miguel García Fernández, specialised in the study of women's history. 

Exhibitions

27/06/2023 - 07/01/2024
Museo Centro Gaiás
The exhibition Luz na terra. El Seminario de Estudos Galegos: una institución de alta cultura is conceived as a celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Seminario, but also as an appreciation of a collective work that tried to act in accordance with the demands of...
14/07/2023 - 05/11/2023
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Nicolás Muller. Vento Norte revisits and recovers the work done in northern Spain by one of the great documentary photographers of the last century. An account that reveals his profoundly humanist view of the hard-working people and the beauty of the landscapes of Galicia, Asturias,...
07/11/2023 - 31/03/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The exhibition Olga Gallego in her centenary (1923-2023) reviews the professional and personal career in various fields of Olga Gallego (Ourense, 1923-2010), distinguished librarian, archivist and first woman to join the Royal Galician Academy. It does so through a selection of 65 pieces...
29/11/2023 - 28/04/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Gaiás Centre Museum brings together a selection of paintings and drawings by José María Barreiro in an exhibition that pays tribute to the painter from Forcarei, who continued the renovation of Laxeiro's historical avant-gardism and post-avant-gardism.
05/12/2023 - 19/05/2024
Museo Centro Gaiás
Habitats. Extended Nature is an immersive sensory experience that traverses the diversity of ecosystems on planet Earth, on a journey through the five continents. Combining the physical and digital worlds in a single layer, Habitats transports us, without leaving the Gaiás Centre Museum,...
22/03/2024 - 04/08/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
From seed to tree. An asset for our lives connects with the original idea for which the Hejduk towers were designed, conceived as botanical towers. Thus, the spaces are used as a greenhouse, where two types of Galician forests - Atlantic and Mediterranean - are recreated, and as a classroom,...
22/03/2024 - 04/08/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Royal treasures. Masterpieces from the Museum of the Holy Land is an international exhibition that will showcase in Santiago de Compostela the extraordinary and little-known artistic treasure of the Museum of the Holy Land in Jerusalem, made up of donations from European Catholic...
03/04/2024 - 28/04/2024
Museo Centro Gaiás
This new montage allows visitors to enter a virtual version of the eleven museums managed by the Xunta de Galicia in the four Galician provinces, and from this virtual scenario, to observe and interact with some of the most outstanding pieces they hold.  
28/05/2024 - 26/01/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Other Possible Stories brings together the work of six contemporary artists born in the 1950s and linked to Galicia in their lives and careers, whose careers are worth reviewing and contextualising in order, as the title of the project states, to generate other stories to complement those...
12/07/2024 - 05/01/2025
Museo Centro Gaiás
The international exhibition A Viking Life is one of the most outstanding projects of the programming of the Cidade da Cultura for 2024. It comprises around 120 pieces, of which a hundred come from outside Spain and belong to museums of history and archaeology of reference in Europe on Viking...
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.

Annual

04/07/2024 - 30/08/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This 2024 the cycle Atardecer no Gaiás brings 16 free concerts, on Thursdays and Fridays between the 4th of July and the 30th of August, to enjoy the best sunsets of the summer in Compostela.   
05/11/2024 - 10/11/2024
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...