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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

12/12/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
One of the missions of the Real Filarmonía de Galicia is its commitment to the new generations of musicians, be they performers - through the Escuela de Altos Estudios Musicales -, composers - through commissions or the Obradoiro de composición - or new conductors - with the...
19/12/2024 - 20/12/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Concert as part of the subscription programme of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, entitled "Nonconformists".    
20/12/2024
20:00 | Teatro Principal
Cantar a Nación. Anniversary of the premiere of the Galician Hymn
27/12/2024
19:30 | Centro Sociocultural das Fontiñas
A proposal designed to highlight the work done by the choral groups of the City Council of Santiago.  
13/02/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Concert as part of the subscription programme of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, entitled "Nonconformists".  
27/02/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
Premiere of Budiño's new show, based on his latest album ‘Branca Vela’. 
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.
09/04/2025
21:00 | Modus Vivendi
“Bótalle guindas á PAVA” is a game and a reflection.
09/05/2025
20:30 | Riquela Club
Presentation concert of the EP ‘3’ by the band PAVA, formed by Analís, David Santos, Pablo Silva and led by Lucía Aldao.
24/05/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Concert by Felisa Segade and Merchi Rodríguez for the Day of Galician Letters 2025
31/05/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
The concert brings together Os Samesugas, celebrating 25 years on stage with "White Fire", an album that reaffirms their commitment to punk, garage, powerpop, and hardcore with power and no compromises. The lineup also features Bule, a band from Pontedeume influenced by '77 punk and powerpop,...
04/06/2025 - 05/06/2025
19:30
The Escola de Altos Estudos Musicais will offer a series of concerts as part of the training programme for students of the Advanced Course in Orchestral Specialisation (CAEO). This initiative, part of the “A Escola na Cidade” cycle, will take place in the Auditorium of the USC...
12/06/2025
19:30 | Casa das Máquinas
Non-subscription concert at the Casa das Máquinas in the Galeras neighbourhood.  
19/06/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Season launch concert of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia.
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...
21/06/2025
20:30 | Sede SGAE/Fundación Autor
Event with groups from the Galician scene to commemorate International Music Day.
26/09/2025
19:30 | Área Central
Concerts in the Neighbourhoods is an initiative by the Royal Galician Philharmonic Orchestra aimed at bringing symphonic music to every corner of Santiago, taking the orchestra beyond the Auditorium and directly connecting with the public.  
27/09/2025
21:00 | Moon Music Club
Next Friday, September 27, Sala Moon (República Argentina 35) will host a Metal concert at 9:00 PM, featuring performances by ScarecröW from A Coruña and Sicixia from Santiago. Tickets cost €9 and are available only at the box office.
22/10/2025
21:00 | Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The pioneering Galician trap duo Boyanka Kostova, formed by Cibrán García and Chicho do Funk (Ortiga), will perform on October 22 at the Outono Cultural. The concert starts at 9:00 p.m. in the University Church, and tickets can be collected for...
06/11/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Subscription concert of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia of the season 25/26 entitled ‘Historias’.  
09/12/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
The flautist from Santiago, André Cebrián, and guitarist Pedro Mateo González present a programme that traces a true sound map of the ocean within the Contemporáneas series.    
28/12/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
De Vacas celebrates its 10th anniversary with the show Vacanal Sinfónica.  
13/01/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Galician ensemble Vertixe Sonora, an international benchmark in contemporary music, presents one of the most experimental events of the Contemporáneas 2025-2026 series.
05/03/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Ciclo de Lied: Histories in Words will take place on Thursday, March 5, at 8:30 p.m. at the Auditorio de Galicia, with tickets priced at €12. Featuring Franz‑Josef Helig (bass) and Georgd Huber (piano), the recital will present iconic works by Schubert, Wolf, Stephan, and Shostakovich,...
18/06/2026 - 20/06/2026
Actuaciones en el Monte do Gozo
O Son do Camiño 2026 will take place on June 18, 19, and 20 at the iconic Monte do Gozo in Santiago de Compostela.

Dance

22/06/2025
19:00 | Auditorio Abanca
End of Year Gala of the professional dance school of Santiago de Compostela, SILIRIA Dance Center.

Theatre

06/02/2025 - 07/02/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Mulleres que viven soas is a co-production of Berrobambán and the Festival Internacional Outono de Teatro (FIOT) of Carballo. Three exceptional women to give voice and body to real stories and fictional female characters.  
06/03/2025 - 20/04/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
This is the tale of a Galician working-class family in those days when it was easier to believe in the stories of grandmothers than in the promises of the bosses.
16/03/2025
12:00 | Salón Teatro
A community theatre show directed and written by Celina Fernández Ponte and Ana Fontenla, which delves into the concept of art through the history of Sargadelos.
23/03/2025
12:00 | Salón Teatro
A community theatre show directed and written by Celina Fernández Ponte and Ana Fontenla, which delves into the concept of art through the history of Sargadelos.
30/03/2025
12:00 | Salón Teatro
A community theatre show directed and written by Celina Fernández Ponte and Ana Fontenla, which delves into the concept of art through the history of Sargadelos.
03/04/2025
Salón Teatro
The laboratory where comedians prepare their next shows opens its doors.
26/04/2025 - 28/04/2025
20:30 | Salón Teatro
The Centro Dramático Galego and the Portuguese collective ASTA–Teatro e Outras Artes co-produce the play Rosalía, Cartography of Harsh Nettles, joining the celebrations of the 188th anniversary of Rosalía de Castro’s birth with the premiere of this...
31/05/2025
20:30 | Auditorio Abanca
The ‘COACHES de choque’ is an improvised comedy show designed to activate and give an endorphin rush to the audience. An interactive show in which Oswaldo Digón and Rafa Durán play two really enthusiastic and highly motivated coaches, who through impro-shock therapy...
17/09/2025 - 21/09/2025
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Serie Clopen is a multidisciplinary performance blending daring acrobatics, comedy, dance and clowning to humorously reflect on the challenges faced by today’s youth. Through the story of Alicia, a girl passionate about mathematics, the show delves into questions of identity, politics,...
03/10/2025 - 05/10/2025
Three days, six shows, and three iconic venues in Santiago to experience improvisation in its purest form
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.
19/11/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
The irreverent, fun, and musical improvisation of Colectivo do Flow returns to T.R.A.C.A.’s Wednesday sessions. Sergio Alfonso Agra, Antía Costas, Carlota Rosón Rojo, Martín Blanco, Pedro Placer, and Carlota Mosquera take the stage in a participatory and inclusive...
08/01/2026 - 25/01/2026
18:00 | Salón Teatro
Theatrical adaptation of the Galician classic by Xosé Neira Vilas, directed by Cándido Pazó, with set design by Pablo Giráldez “O Pastor”, costumes by Martina Cambeiro, music by Xosé Lois Romero, and lighting by Afonso Castro.
07/02/2026
18:30 | Auditorio Abanca
Pablo Meixe returns to keep testing new material, improvising with the audience and, above all, doing what he loves most: seeing you laugh nonstop. This show is a whirlwind of laughter and connection with the audience. If you laugh at his videos, get ready to experience it live. No filters...
11/03/2026
20:30 | Sala Capitol
Teté Delgado and Julio Pereira take the stage of the iconic Sala Capitol in Santiago de Compostela for a fun and provocative show.  A femme fatale, a private detective, and a crime… or two. These are the ingredients of a comedy where the most intimate fantasies blur with...

For children

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’;...
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...
23/05/2025
10:15 | Parque de Eugenio Granell (O Paxonal)
The foliada will bring together in Compostela music and dance groups, as well as pandeireteiras (tambourine players), from 15 educational centers in Galicia and Portugal, in a festive pilgrimage celebrating Galician-Portuguese Letters.  

Fairs

14/06/2025
10:00 | Área Central
A leading event in innovation, creativity, and technology, now in its 11th edition. The fair kicks off with an opening day focused on entrepreneurship and social innovation, held at Área Central and featuring numerous activities for the whole family.

Literature

29/03/2025
12:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Four decades after Castelao's reburial, different ‘ollos de vidro’ come together in this gathering to analyse Castelao's political and aesthetic thought. 
01/07/2025
Iglesia y Convento de San Domingos de Bonaval
As Castelao used to say: public reading of texts on the 75th anniversary of the author’s death at the Panteón de galegas e galegos ilustres.

Social events

05/06/2025 - 30/06/2025
On the occasion of the celebration of International LGBTIQ+ Pride Day on 28 June, Compostela Diversa brings together a series of actions and activities to make Santiago a benchmark as a welcoming city, committed to global and inclusive actions that help to advance in the achievement of...

Cinema

28/11/2024
19:00 | Museo do Pobo Galego
The researcher Andrés Teira Brión together with the production company Illa Bufarda are the creators of this short film that travels through different locations in Asturias, Galicia and Portugal to learn about the uses and methods of cultivation of small maize, a cereal that is...
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...
01/07/2025 - 06/07/2025
22nd edition of the International Festival of Cinema and Visual Arts.

Sport

25/10/2025 - 26/10/2025
Multiusos Fontes do Sar
XACOBEO RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS – 4TH INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT + 5TH VIRAVOLTA JAEL GALA

Fiestas

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...
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.
23/06/2025
Plaza de Mazarelos
Coinciding with the Festivities of San Xoán, which fill the city with colourful and magical bonfires, Santiago welcomes a new edition of the festival that includes in its programme a variety of activities and workshops for the enhancement of Galician rites and traditions of this time...
05/07/2025
Forth edition of this festival, which is an encounter with the local community and the rock heritage of the area through local and sustainable cultural proposals.  
12/07/2025
10:30
Forth edition of this festival, which is an encounter with the local community and the rock heritage of the area through local and sustainable cultural proposals.  
18/07/2025 - 31/07/2025
The festivities dedicated to the Apostle, the patron saint of Santiago, of Galicia and of all of Spain, last for about a fortnight. This festival combines religious and official solemnity, tradition and entertainment, which turn the entire city into a large fiesta. July 24th and...

Guided visits

10/09/2025
18:30 | Libraría Couceiro
Lecture and subsequent tour led by art historian and critic Mercedes Rozas. Activity organized by the Cultural Association "O Galo".  
23/09/2025
18:00
Cultural route within the cycle "Santiago 1923-1936", organized by AC. O Galo Santiago
26/11/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C return with the proposal titled “Servas de Deus, donas de si”, exploring Compostela’s enclosed convents. The guided tours, free and lasting 90 minutes, delve into the history of women who governed complex...

Others

23/05/2025 - 25/05/2025
Área Central
First big Rallyslot event in Galicia
04/08/2025 - 28/08/2025
Circus, dance, street theatre, poetry, music, storytelling, magic and cinema make up nearly thirty proposals spread throughout the city. Organised by Santiago City Council through Compostela Cultura, Festival C is supported by the Provincial Council of A Coruña and collaborates with...
06/09/2025
12:45 | Plaza del Obradoiro
A unique opportunity to see the best Carnivals of Galicia at the same time and in the same place.
30/10/2025
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Tenth anniversary of the Galician-Portuguese Music and Poetry Awards ceremony.
06/11/2025 - 09/11/2025
The Encontro Internacional de Cadernos de Viaxe Compostela Ilustrada is an annual event that brings together illustrators, sketchbook artists, urban sketchers and travel drawing enthusiasts in the city of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia). It was created in 2016 by El Patito...

Conferences

17/12/2024
19:30 | Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
Conference as part of the cycle ‘Coñecemento e visibilización da historia de Compostela e do Reino de Galiza: o Panteón Real da catedral de Santiago’ organised by the AC O Galo.
06/06/2025 - 08/06/2025
Hospedería San Martín Pinario
As part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Asociación do Traxe Galego, these talks will be held by various specialists in traditional clothing.
28/10/2025
19:30 | Libraría Couceiro
The Cultural Association O Galo presents a talk by historian Diana Pelaz on Urraca of Galicia, the first woman to hold political power in her time. The lecture will explore her reign and her complex relationships with key figures of the period, such as Archbishop Diego Gelmírez.

Exhibitions

18/07/2024 - 30/11/2024
Casa do Cabido
The exhibition ‘Ksado. Icons of Galicia’ delves into the history of Galician photography by the author Luis Casado and brings together around 300 pieces including photographs, postcards, stickers and photographic material.
07/10/2024 - 25/01/2025
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Afundación, Obra Social ABANCA, we invite you to a creative party that celebrates art and culture all over Galicia through the SIMULTÁNEA macro-project with seven exhibitions in seven cities. The Afundación Art Collection is the...
06/11/2024 - 29/12/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
Exhibition created at the initiative of the IES Perdouro de Burela focused on the standardisation of funerary epigraphy in Galician.
28/11/2024 - 28/02/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
How are our affective relationships being transformed by the emergence of digital media? This and other questions are raised in the exhibition Afectos Dixitais, a USC's own production around which the Cultural Faísca is structured, which is being developed in several educational centres...
03/12/2024 - 29/12/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
75 years ago, in December 1949, Castelao, exiled in Argentina, signed on his deathbed the first pages of what was to be his last published work: As cruces de pedra na Galiza, the result of many years of study of these particular examples of popular religiosity. 
16/01/2025 - 02/02/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
Louza de Bamio: memoria, mulleres e territorio invites the public to discover the richness of a trade that has disappeared today: the oleira tradition of the parish of San Xinés de Bamio, in Vilagarcía de Arousa. 
27/01/2025 - 31/05/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The exhibition, made up of six showcases, takes us on a journey through the artist's life and work through which we can glimpse his motivations, tastes and the great effort he dedicates to each creation.
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.
07/02/2025 - 16/03/2025
The exhibition ‘Lo que cabe en una almendra’ by the artist Lara Pintos, from A Coruña, shows a very personal vision of the city of Santiago de Compostela.
07/02/2025 - 16/02/2025
Centro Comercial Área Central
A proposal of different actions around the camellia organized with the concello de Vedra and the Asociación de amigos da Camelia do Val do Ulla. The program of activities includes exhibitions, music and workshops. 
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.
22/04/2025 - 15/06/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
The exhibition, on loan from the Provincial Museum of Pontevedra, brings together 52 photographs taken by photojournalist Xan Carballa during the events held in Santiago to mark the return to Galicia of the remains of Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, on June 28, 1984. Curated by...
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...
02/05/2025 - 31/05/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
From the Ánxel Casal Library, we present a journey that traces the path from the oral transmission of folk literature to sung verse, joining the celebration of the 2025 Día das Letras Galegas, dedicated to the cantareiras Adolfina and Rosa Casás, Eva Castiñeira, and...
08/05/2025 - 10/06/2025
Trinta
Galería Trinta presents Aproximación formal, an exhibition by artist Xurxo Martiño that explores the boundaries of form through a precise and sensitive approach to gesture and space. In this show, Martiño unfolds a series of works where matter, geometry, and texture...
31/05/2025 - 15/06/2025
Hospedería San Martín Pinario
This exhibition, part of the events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Asociación do Traxe Galego, will bring together between fifteen and twenty full or partial antique outfits from the four Galician provinces.
18/06/2025 - 25/09/2025
Auditorio de Galicia
Facémolo co corpo. A performance é cousa de mulleres brings together the work of a significant number of artists, each capable of shaping a narrative around the history of performance art since the late 1960s, when this artistic language began to flourish
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...
Free
14/07/2025 - 01/09/2025
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
The José Lorenzo Art Gallery hosts an unprecedented exhibition bringing together works from several generations of Galician creators, connecting the committed art of Castelao, the humanist and innovative legacy of Isaac Díaz Pardo, the disruptive momentum of the 1980s, and the...
18/07/2025 - 28/08/2025
Aenea was born twenty-six years ago with the aim of creating a space for meeting and mutual growth, both personal and collective. The group exhibition Tecendo o Un, on view from July 18 to August 28 at Aenea’s venue in Santiago, is a symbolic expression of this shared journey. Created by...
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...
02/10/2025 - 02/11/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
Exhibition of the winning and finalist photographs of the 19th Luís Ksado Award, organized by the Deputation of A Coruña and curated by photographer Xurxo Lobato.  Among other works, visitors can view I gotta change by Juan Manuel de la Quintana, the winner of this...
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.
05/11/2025 - 19/12/2025
On the 75th anniversary of Daniel Castelao’s passing, the University of Santiago joins the commemorative events with the exhibition Cousas de Familia. Galician family law on the 75th anniversary of Castelao’s cabodano and the 30th anniversary of Law 4/1995, of May 24, on Civil...
05/11/2025 - 29/11/2025
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The exhibition highlights the historical memory of Galician heterodox left-wing militants, “doubly forgotten” due to Francoist repression and Stalinist persecution, reflecting on left-wing unity in the face of rising fascist threats.  

Religious

11/04/2025 - 20/04/2025
Holy Week in Compostela has always had a special charm, and its monumental setting is a World Heritage Site. The commemoration of the Passion, death and resurrection of Christ, of profound significance for the Christian faith, finds in this city magnificent settings that give the traditional...

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