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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

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.
24/05/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Concert by Felisa Segade and Merchi Rodríguez for the Day of Galician Letters 2025
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...

Theatre

21/02/2025 - 22/02/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Clásicas desfeitas is a cycle promoted by the Centro Dramático Galego with the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia to rediscover the classics through the languages of the contemporary stage. The cycle is part of the Gaiás Artistic Residencies programme (REGA).
28/02/2025 - 01/03/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Clásicas desfeitas is a cycle promoted by the Centro Dramático Galego with the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia to rediscover the classics through the languages of the contemporary stage. The cycle is part of the Gaiás Artistic Residencies programme (REGA).
22/03/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Show for Oral Storytelling Day
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...
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.
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.

For children

27/12/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rediscover the magic of the classic circus with this new show where polar bears or animatronic elephants - mechanical animals with the appearance and movement of real animals - will amaze children and adults alike. With a carefully designed set design, and fabulous acrobatics and choreography,...
04/01/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Horns, crests and throats ready for this Christmas special! A Gramola Gominola and their show Aí vén o Apalpador! promises to get the whole Gaiás Centre Museum dancing!
25/01/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
De conjuros y música is a musical workshop in which children actively participate in a concert through an interactive experience full of magical moments and live music.
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...
03/03/2025
16:30 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This year for the Entroido no Gaiás ball we travel to Mount Esmeralda and to the iconography of a literary saga that fascinates children of all generations: the wonderful world of Oz.
29/03/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The play, aimed at children from 6 years of age, takes a look at the most significant literary and artistic moments in Castelao's life in a language adapted to the youngest members of the family. This stage play represents part of his work with puppets: stories from ‘Cousas’;...
12/04/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A musical show in verse, agile, daring and inspiring. Os contos de Lobicán, by Redrum Teatro and recent winner of the María Casares Award for Puppets and Animated Objects, comes to the Biblioteca de Galicia on the occasion of the International Children's and Young People's Book Day.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.

Cinema

14/02/2025 - 16/02/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The best international small cinema will fill the Gaiás on the weekend of February 14 to 16 with short films and workshops to enjoy with the family and on the big screen.

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...

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.

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

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

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.
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.
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...
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.
28/11/2025 - 03/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Photography workshops and exhibition organised by Fotoforum Compostela

Annual

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.   
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...