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140 matches: 52 Music | 5 Gastronomy | 4 Literature | 6 Annual | 7 Dance | 20 Theatre | 17 For children | 1 Fairs | 4 Festival | 5 Cinema | 3 Celebrations | 1 Heritage | 6 Sport | 11 Fiestas | 1 Night life | 1 Guided visits | 3 Others | 9 Exhibitions | 1 Religious
Music
30/05/2024
21:00 | Catedral
Temporada 2023/24: “POSTAIS” Ciclo III Programme: “dende a lembranza” – In Memoriam Dani Portas
06/07/2024
Actuaciones en el Monte do Gozo
O GOZO FESTIVAL wants to consolidate itself as a meeting point where every season some of the most important artists coming to the peninsula have a place.
Ed Sheeran arrives for the first time in Galicia thanks to O Gozo Festival for what will be one of the biggest events of the year....
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.
13/07/2024
16:00 | Actuaciones en el Monte do Gozo
This summer, don't miss the best DJs in the world in Galicia with O Gozo Festival. On Saturday July 13 we gather at Monte do Gozo in Santiago de Compostela to dance, enjoy, and celebrate life together, don't miss it!
18/07/2024
20:00
The Real Filharmonía de Galicia will give a concert in the Church of Santo Agostiño conducted by Sebastian Zinca and featuring Paulina Bielarczyk as soprano. Pieces by L. v. Beethoven, W. A. Mozart, J. Sibelius, A. Beach and G. Verdi will be performed.
18/07/2024
20:30 | Colegiata Santa María a Real do Sar
CHANGE OF DATE DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER. THE CONCERT WILL BE MOVED FROM 14TH TO 18TH JULY.
New tour of Lugares Máxicos that takes the piper to emblematic heritage sites such as castles, churches, monasteries and pazos.
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.
Free
05/08/2024 - 24/08/2024
The 21th edition of the Feito á Man festival in Santiago de Compostela will fill the streets and squares of the old city with live music, with more than forty artistic proposals of different musical styles. The festival is organised by the Cidade Vella Cultural Association.
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.
Free
09/08/2024 - 11/08/2024
20:00 | Plaza de Praterías
This concert, organized by the Galician Federation of Wind Bands and sponsored by Turismo de Galicia, has the purpose of promoting and stimulating musical activity, which is a fundamental part of our cultural heritage. It also aims to showcase the work of non-professional ensembles from...
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.
Free
23/08/2024 - 25/08/2024
20:00 | Plaza de Praterías
This concert, organized by the Galician Federation of Wind Bands and sponsored by Turismo de Galicia, has the purpose of promoting and stimulating musical activity, which is a fundamental part of our cultural heritage. It also aims to showcase the work of non-professional ensembles from all...
Free
04/09/2024
19:30 | Hotel NH Collection Santiago de Compostela *****
The gastronomic and musical cycle noitiNHas returns to the cultural programme with a seventh edition in which it will offer five free events for the public at the NH Collection Santiago on Wednesdays 15th May, 5th June, 3rd July, 7th August and 4th September from 19:30h.
18/09/2024 - 20/09/2024
20:00
The Real Filharmonía de Galicia takes to the streets to bring classical music to the general public through 3 concerts in different neighbourhoods of Santiago.
25/09/2024 - 29/09/2024
A festival, an ocean of experiences - Music and other avant-garde arts - Laboratory of ideas and promotion of new talents - Place of (re)encounter and celebration of diversity.
06/10/2024
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Banda Municipal de Música de Santiago de Compostela starts the season with a collaboration with the company ExperimentaDanza, a professional dance company founded in 2003 under the direction of Carlota Peréz (choreographer, dancer and art historian).
The BMSC will perform...
18/10/2024
19:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
With a language of their own, the duo formed by singer Gloria Pavía and bassist Rafa Morales bring us a repertoire made up mainly of original songs, arranged for voice and electric bass, a mixture that generates a dialogue between the instruments and which offers both intimate and...
27/10/2024
12:00 | Teatro Principal
Season 2024/25 ‘WALKS Autumn-winter cycle
Free
15/11/2024
19:30 | Centro Xove da Almáciga
Concert by Liskadakí and Loita Amada
ALIAXE is a series of concerts that will take place one Friday of each month during the last quarter of 2024, at the Centro Xove da Almáciga. This initiative, promoted by the Concellería de Xuventude do Concello de Santiago de...
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...
27/11/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Performance as part of the Contemporáneas programme.
11/12/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Premiere of this work made with Artificial Intelligence as part of the Contemporary programme.
15/12/2024
19:30 | Sala Capitol
Tradimensional, Ailá's third album, is a tribute to these experiences, personified in the maestras pandeireteiras, the instrument players and the dancers who knew how to enjoy and transmit this collective heritage.
15/12/2024
12:00 | Teatro Principal
Santiago de Compostela Municipal Music Band Season 2024/25 ‘PASEOS’ (WALKS) Autumn-winter cycle Guest conductor: Marcel van Bree
22/12/2024
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Auditorio de Galicia hosts a concert based on the book-disc entitled O segredo de Joseph Haydn by the author Suso de Toro and illustrated by Xosé Cobas.
Free
27/12/2024
21:00 | Catedral
The Cathedral will host a Christmas concert by the renowned singer María do Ceo. The programme will be made up of different Christmas carols, which will be sung by the popular singer of Portuguese origin, known for her interpretations of fados and who has been living in Galicia for...
17/01/2025
21:00 | Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Galicia
One of the essential artists on the national music scene is back. Sergio Dalma is back. And he does so with a new unreleased album entitled ‘Sonríe porque estás en la foto’. A new album with which the artist celebrates his impressive musical career with vitality and...
22/01/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Premiere of this musical project as part of the Contemporáneas programme.
01/02/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
LINA_ presents her new work based on the poetry of Camões with a renewed sound that moves us, and placing her vocal expressiveness at the centre. A sensorial expression, pulsating, full of life; a lively music that at times places us in melancholy and suspension, but which above all is a...
01/02/2025
20:00 | Palacio de Congresos e Exposicións de Galicia
Ara Malikian presents his new tour ‘Intruso’, a very personal journey in which he starts from the anguish of not fitting in anywhere to finally embrace the richness of his multicultural identity and find his home in the whole world through art and music.
Free
04/02/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Opera by Teatro Extremo as part of the Contemporáneas programme.
13/02/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Tempo de cor is the new work by Abe Rábade, which he presents at the Teatro Principal.
27/02/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
Premiere of Budiño's new show, based on his latest album ‘Branca Vela’.
16/03/2025
20:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Uxía Senlle, one of the great voices of the country's music and a key figure in the preservation and dissemination of our culture, celebrates 40 years on stage with an unforgettable concert in Compostela.
18/03/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Música Práctica brings this musical proposal framed in the Contemporáneas Programme.
Free
20/03/2025
21:00 | Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
A banda da Loba presents their new album: ‘Lovismo’, which revolves around the idea of love.
23/03/2025
19:30 | Sala Capitol
The American rock band that combines garage rock and punk with soul music like no other, founded in Riverside, California in 1990 by vocalist Lisa Kekaula and guitarist Bob Vennum, returns to Santiago.
27/03/2025
20:30 | Riquela Club
Delafé y Las Flores Azules is an iconic Barcelona band that defined a generation with their unique fusion of pop, hip hop and electronica, embellished with poetic and emotionally resonant lyrics.
05/04/2025
16:30 | Multiusos Fontes do Sar
Festival Jaleo! promises to be a meeting point for all lovers of music and good vibes. On the Jaleo stage we will be able to see top national artists, as well as emerging talents who are setting a new direction in music.
13/04/2025 - 20/04/2025
De Lugares e Órganos returns at Easter with the intention of continuing to discover and revisit the spaces of the city and its musical memory in a programme featuring the organs of Compostela.
26/04/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
Carlangas presents his new album ‘Bailódromo, Vol. 1’ in Santiago de Compostela.
16/05/2025
20:00 | Teatro Principal
Santiago City Council joins the celebration of the Día das Letras Galegas, which in 2025 honors the cantareiras and pandeireteiras—female singers and tambourine players who are authors of orally transmitted traditional music—with a concert by five local choirs.
Free
17/05/2025
15:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Second meeting of the ‘tocadoras’ and great foliada open to the public.
07/06/2025
20:30 | Auditorio Abanca
Tamara, the Queen of Boleros, celebrates 25 years of music with a spectacular tour and her show Piano y Voz. An intimate format where she will present new songs, revisit her greatest hits, and perform very special versions.
15/06/2025
21:00 | San Francisco Hotel Monumento ****
A unique experience by candlelight
05/07/2025
Actuaciones en el Monte do Gozo
The Mexican band will play in Santiago with other artists as part of Gozo Fest 2025.
11/07/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
Concert by the Nebraska band as part of the Gozo Fest 2025 festival.
28/07/2025
21:30 | Sala Capitol
Three-time GRAMMY® Award winner Fantastic Negrito released his highly anticipated new album, Son of a Broken Man, which encapsulates his inimitable style, from hard-hitting guitar riffs to expressive ballads, with the unexpected twists and turns that have become his trademark.
25/10/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
End of Tour “Síntese Horizonte”.
28/12/2025
19:30 | Sala Capitol
After 10 years of career and more than 400 concerts, Xabier Díaz and the Adufeiras de Salitre continue working on the recovery and dignification of the traditional music transmitted by the women of the country's villages.
Dance
Free
03/09/2024 - 07/09/2024
This festival searchs for the dynamization and promotion of contemporary dance, offering for a week various activities around the dance: Training workshops, talks with dance professionals and small and medium format shows in Cloisters and Open Spaces of Compostela.
28/12/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Demente is a work of dance and traditional music by Fran Sieira Compañía de Danza that addresses the stigma of pathologies linked to mental health. On stage, the choreography shows the historical evolution that people with mental health disorders suffered, and still suffer, from...
Free
30/03/2025
18:30
Danzade was created in 2024 with the intention of highlighting equality in dance. It was also born with the aim of showing different dance disciplines that exist in our society and that connect in some way with each other. In 2025 it will continue along the lines of equality in dance, but will...
30/04/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
In Aurora Borealis, the permanence of things is exposed. It reflects on the durability of a scenic work: can it change over time, does it need to change or remain frozen? Transience as a social essence already constituted and apparently approved by society. Aurora Borealis starts from...
03/05/2025
20:00 | Casa das Máquinas
As part of the celebration of the 15-year trajectory of the Danza a Escena program, the Compostela Cultura agenda presents a double bill of free-access performances to enjoy the art of movement. Two stage works, PIES DE GALLINA and ZENEZ, take us to a space where contemporary dance becomes a...
Theatre
26/05/2024
20:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Corentena'. Perdomo and Touriñán in live chat
During the months of confinement in 2020, David Perdomo and Xosé A. Touriñán began to chat live via Instagram. Those nights they improvised different characters and interacted with the viewers who tuned in to...
16/06/2024
19:00 | Auditorio Abanca
Monologue by Carlos Blanco
Free
13/09/2024
19:00 | Plaza de la Quintana
Camino Escena Norte is a cultural exchange project through the performing arts between Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, Euskadi and Navarra which, promoted by the associations Escena Galega, EscenAsturias, Acepae, Eskena and Escena Navarra, will deploy an intense programme of activities in 60...
09/10/2024 - 13/10/2024
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Third Act is a piece that is at once comic, dark and beautiful. A scenic poem about memory and dreams, an exorcism, a celebration of life and theatre.
19/10/2024
19:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
TEATRO NACIONAL SÃO JOÃO
01/11/2024 - 02/11/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Carlos Blanco and Xosé A. Touriñán put an end to one of the most successful projects of Galician theatre in recent decades with a new show that will tour throughout Galicia until January.
29/11/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Teatro de Papel is a contemporary circus show that, through the manipulation of objects, clowning, physical theatre and a baggage of extraordinary puppets, seeks to vindicate the power of the imagination.
The Paper Theatre is a person in his solitude, it is a party without celebration, a...
03/01/2025 - 05/01/2025
22:00 | Sala Capitol
Ultranoite returns regularly to Compostela, always at the Sala Capitol, which will become the new mooring platform for the most veteran show on the Galician stage.
17/01/2025 - 18/01/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Premiere of Teatro do Noroeste's new show
18/01/2025
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The extraordinary story of three sisters who face daily obstacles and adversities to get to school. Three girls who live in any country, in a place that is as far away as it is near, who speak no specific language and, at the same time, speak them all.
31/01/2025
21:00 | Auditorio Abanca
This show could also be called 17 times revistied or 17 times evolution or 17 times the director's montage..... For it is a show that has been remade, revised, evolved and reassembled.
11/02/2025 - 15/02/2025
20:30 | Salón Teatro
The XXIX International University Theatre Festival of the USC opens in Compostela from 11 to 15 February a window to the theatrical creations developed by university theatre companies at Galician, national and European level.
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).
05/04/2025 - 06/04/2025
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Check-in producciones brings to Santiago this large-scale production with a luxury cast including Antonio Durán ‘Morris’, Alba Flores, Natalia Hernández, María Morales, Paco Ochoa, Blanca Portillo, Guillermo Toledo, Juan Vinuesa and the Coro de Jóvenes de...
03/05/2025
10:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Bob Marley for babies is the second part of the trilogy that La petita malumaluga started with the international success of Bitels for babies (a tribute concert to The Beatles). Four dancers who sing, or four singers who dance, and a cellist perform sophisticated arrangements of the great songs...
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...
23/05/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
PROTO (SN1806) is the result of ten years of Janet Novás' solo research, characterised fundamentally by her relationship with the energetic through movement, music, the dark box, lighting and the spectator's gaze.
30/05/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
In a storm of fog, Poncia, Bernarda Alba's maid, prays for Adela's death. The house is plunged into a sea of silence. Poncia talks to herself and also to them, to Bernarda Alba and her daughters.
31/05/2025
20:00 | Salón Teatro
Renowned Argentine actor Gabriel Fernández is touring Galicia with the play GALEGO.
27/06/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
‘Violent, rude, lacking in respect and civility’ is the RAE's definition of “brute”. And that is, in a way, Nito's world: the neighbourhood where he lives, the people around him. That's why his entry into film school to study screenwriting leads him to take a leap...
Gastronomy
13/02/2025 - 02/03/2025
Santiago has a wide and diverse gastronomic offer based on the best Galician products and combining traditional and nouvelle cuisine. Santiago (é)Tapas, the city's tapas competition, is the perfect opportunity to discover the quality of the city's gastronomy, as it allows you to...
22/02/2025 - 23/02/2025
Fifty establishments in Santiago will offer Caldo de Gloria this weekend, as part of Rosalía's Day activities.
30/04/2025
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.
Free
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
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.
Free
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 | Auditorio de Galicia
Vivaldi's four seasons inspire a show that represents the changes that occur in each of the seasons of the year with little stories that value the importance of friendship and affectionate and supportive relationships. A painter (Maruxa), a writer (Rosalía Emilia Concepción)...
05/10/2024
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The teacher is brave, skilful and resourceful. She believes in the abilities of all the children and with them she has built a beautiful school in the forest with room for all animals. Her most beloved word is ‘freedom’, because the teacher wants her class to grow freely. However,...
Free
06/10/2024
11:00
The cycle ‘Xogamos na Casa!’ opens in the Casa de las Máquinas a space to have fun with the family, to discover and rediscover games and toys with which to let imagination and time fly.
26/10/2024
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Library of Galicia celebrates Library Day with the theatrical performance Little Red Riding Hood in the attic, a family show by the company Teatro del Andamio.
26/10/2024
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
Family concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia
08/11/2024 - 10/11/2024
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A space to feel, touch, play and immerse ourselves in art.
29/11/2024 - 05/01/2025
16:00 | Iglesia de San Fiz de Solovio
From Friday 29 November to Sunday 5 January you can enjoy the impressive nativity scene donated and assembled by the nativity scene maker José Uzal: more than 500 figures make up this nativity scene which includes different scenes, moving pieces and also special lighting and sound...
20/12/2024 - 04/01/2025
The Christmas Circus of Santiago de Compostela. New show by Educateatro Produccions
Free
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.
27/04/2025
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Gran Gala del Circo celebrates International Circus Day at the Auditorio de Galicia. This variety show coordinated by Pistacatro brings together on stage a lot of local artists and artists from other lands in a party for the enjoyment of small and large audiences alike. Don't wait to be...
Fairs
29/11/2024 - 05/01/2025
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
01/07/2024 - 07/07/2024
The Oral Storytelling Festival brings storytellers from Portugal, Cuba, Salamanca, Japan, and a wide range of Galician talent and new emerging voices.
05/08/2024 - 29/08/2024
The fifth edition of Festival C will take to the squares, parks and streets of the city a lot of free proposals for all audiences from 5 to 29 August. Dance, poetry, film, music, puppetry, storytelling, circus and performances, by Galician and visiting companies and artists to fill the summer...
12/10/2024 - 20/10/2024
The Galicreques International Puppet Festival, organised by the Asociación Cultural Barriga Verde with the collaboration of the Santiago City Council, the Xunta de Galicia, the Diputación de A Coruña, the Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas y Musicales (Inaem),...
21/02/2025 - 23/02/2025
Under the slogan Sen pombas nin flores, inspired by a Rosalian verse taken from Follas Novas, a wide-ranging programme including recitals, street entertainment, concerts and theatre will take place over 3 days.
Literature
27/10/2024
18:00 | Teatro Principal
The event will take place at the Teatro Principal and will be attended by renowned cultural figures such as Ana Romaní, Andrea Nunes, Guadi Galego, Tero Rodríguez and Uxía, who will remember the author through a journey through her literary and poetic career.
20/03/2025 - 22/03/2025
Teatro Principal
VIII Poetry Festival for Corpo Principal
The Alguén que respira! festival will turn Compostela into the Galician epicentre of poetry. The event returns to the Teatro Principal faithful to its vocation to create a framework for reflection on reality and current society.
The VIII...
06/10/2025 - 11/10/2025
Plaza de la Quintana
APPROXIMATE DATES
The SELIC Reading Festival is a Galician literary event of international reference.
Cinema
Free
01/10/2024 - 06/10/2024
Between 1 and 6 October 2024, the citizens of Compostela and film lovers will be able to enjoy a wide selection of 41 small-format films from 18 countries, distributed in three sections: Cosmos, Planet GZ, Supernova.
21/10/2024 - 25/10/2024
Teatro Principal
The Euro-Arab film festival will be held between 21 and 25 October at the Teatro Principal with screenings of ‘The Teacher’, ‘Inshallah Wallad’, ‘Bye bye Tiberias’, ‘To a Land Unknown’ and ‘The Old Oak’.
07/11/2024 - 24/11/2024
Cineuropa reaches its 38th edition with a programme of more than 130 films as well as concerts, debates, meetings with filmmakers and educational activities in an edition with the slogan ‘The heart of cinema is freedom’.
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.
12/03/2025 - 16/03/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
The International Ethnographic Film Festival of the Museo do Pobo Galego aims to present recent audiovisual works in the field of ethnography and visual anthropology.
The screenings take place in the Museo do Pobo Galego, the Salón Teatro and the Teatro...
Celebrations
27/05/2024 - 30/06/2024
On the occasion of the celebration of International LGTBI 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 inclusive actions that help to advance in the achievement of...
07/09/2024
10:30 | Plaza del Obradoiro
On 7 September there will be a unique opportunity to admire the variety and authenticity of the Traditional Carnivals of Galicia. The event starts at midday in the Praza do Obradoiro and continues through the main streets and squares of the historic centre of Santiago de Compostela.
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.
10/05/2025
20:00 | Plaza del Obradoiro
Run through the emblematic areas of the historic city of Santiago de Compostela.
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...
08/06/2025
11:00 | Monasterio e Iglesia de Santa María de Conxo
XI Edition of the ‘Carreras Saudables’ circuit composed of 5 races for all ages.
14/09/2025
11:00 | Parque de Eugenio Granell (O Paxonal)
XI Edition of the ‘Carreras Saudables’ circuit composed of 5 races for all ages.
Fiestas
23/06/2024
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.
29/06/2024
19:00
As part of the Compostela Diversa programme, a Festival will be held in the Praza de Mazarelos with an entertaining, artistic and poetic programme, in which different writers and artists will take part.
19/07/2024 - 31/07/2024
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...
Free
23/07/2024
12:00 | Parque de Eugenio Granell (O Paxonal)
The Eugenio Granell Park will host next July 23, a day of fun dedicated specifically to the children of Compostela, the Festa Pícara. It is a day framed in the programming of the Feasts of the Apostle that will feature various activities of theater, music, puppets, workshops in Galician...
29/11/2024 - 05/01/2025
At the heart of the 8-point garden is the traditional Christmas tree, a 20-metre tree integrated into a space for children's entertainment. Next to this tree, the square has a light show on the façade of the Pazo de Raxoi and a wooden Ferris wheel.
15/02/2025 - 15/03/2025
Santiago de Compostela
Very close to Santiago:
Boqueixón, A Estrada, Silleda, Touro, Vedra, Vila de Cruces
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” (generals) ride on horseback, dressed in colourful...
Free
01/03/2025 - 15/03/2025
Floats, troupes and brass bands will fill the streets of Compostela with music and colour in a new edition of the Carnival Festivities.
04/04/2025 - 07/04/2025
Romería de San Lázaro: 'Festa Gastronómica da Uña' [4-7 abril 2025]
A religious and gastronomic festival. One of the most unique and oldest festivities in Galicia.
23/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
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.
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.
28/05/2025 - 01/06/2025
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...
Night life
27/05/2024 - 30/06/2024
In order to make the values of Compostela Diversa more visible, Turismo de Santiago is lighting/decorating prominent public spaces with a high number of visitors.
Guided visits
Free
09/09/2024 - 14/09/2024
The Invisible Heritage Week is a cycle that opens the doors of treasures, usually closed, and designs guided visits for small groups so that their users keep a unique cultural experience in their memorie
Others
Free
14/10/2024 - 19/10/2024
The Sermana da cidadanIA, framed in the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024), is a cycle of activities organised by the CiTIUS of the USC to bring AI closer to society in an informative, playful and rigorous way. Open and free activities.
08/11/2024 - 09/11/2024
Auditorio de Galicia
The Sala Mozart of the Auditorio de Galicia will host a new edition of the Xornadas de Ilustración Urbana, a programme of free lectures by artists of drawing and illustration that takes place within the framework of the 7th International Meeting of Travelogues Compostela ilustrada.
21/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
The Plataforma Festival is an unmissable annual event for lovers of culture and the arts, bringing together diverse audiences with its interdisciplinary approach. Between May 21 and 25, the festival will energize the streets and squares of the city, with performances, music, film, dance, stage...
Exhibitions
24/02/2024 - 01/09/2024
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
The most complete and comprehensive vision of an artist's work becomes possible when we have the opportunity to examine his artistic production throughout his career. An opportunity to travel through time, having as a horizon the works that are the result of work and dedication to the singular...
Free
20/03/2024 - 01/06/2024
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
The exhibition "Endangered Emotions" brings together images from Flach's Threatened project, which led the photographer to portray endangered species around the world. Instead of framing them in their natural habitat, Tim Flach chose to portray them against neutral backgrounds,...
02/04/2024 - 30/06/2024
Auditorio de Galicia
#Punctum puts two irrefutable realities on the table: that the designed band is art and that the Galician BD artists possess a visual power and an artistic discourse of the first order.
Free
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...
05/09/2024 - 31/10/2024
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition ‘Miradas. Mulleres na arte' by Elsa Martínez seeks to pay tribute to the female representatives who stood out in the world of art and also to those who remained anonymous.
20/01/2025 - 28/02/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
On display are 28 paintings by Tadahiko Horiguchi, one of the first creators of Japanese anime and disciple of the god of manga, Osamu Tezuka.
28/01/2025 - 25/05/2025
Auditorio de Galicia
This exhibition is an artistic and historical reflection on the identity of Galicia.
Curated by Germán Labrador Méndez, this exhibition combines art, memory and modernity to offer a new perspective of our history.
30/04/2025 - 07/06/2025
Plaza de Cervantes
Alfonso Zarauza (Santiago de Compostela, 1973) is celebrating thirty years of filmmaking — from Compostela to the world.
The exhibition “Nunca deixará de chover no meu cinema” (“It Will Never Stop Raining in My Cinema”) traces these decades...
Free
15/05/2025 - 28/06/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition by Madrid-based artists Consuelo Chacón and Patricia Mateo, and fellow Madrilenian artist José Luis López Moral.
Religious
11/04/2025 - 20/04/2025
Festivity of Tourist Interest of Galicia
Holy Week in a spiritual, historic city, peace and much more
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