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66 matches: 13 Music | 8 Theatre | 2 Gastronomy | 4 For children | 1 Festival | 2 Literature | 1 Social events | 1 Annual | 1 Cinema | 6 Fiestas | 1 Celebrations | 1 Guided visits | 4 Others | 2 Conferences | 20 Exhibitions | 1 Religious
Music
27/02/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
Premiere of Budiño's new show, based on his latest album ‘Branca Vela’.
09/04/2025
21:00 | Modus Vivendi
“Bótalle guindas á PAVA” is a game and a reflection.
09/05/2025 - 10/05/2025
21:30 | Sala Capitol
Mondra presents DE RONDA, their second album: a record made to seduce or be seduced.
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.
12/06/2025
19:30 | Casa das Máquinas
Non-subscription concert at the Casa das Máquinas in the Galeras neighbourhood.
13/06/2025
19:30 | Monasterio e Iglesia de Santa María de Conxo
Non-subscription concert in the Conxo neighbourhood
Free
20/06/2025 - 22/06/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Traditional music and dance will once again flood the Gaiás with muiñeiras and aturuxos, alalás and pandeiradas: the Serán returns in June 2025 to the Cidade da Cultura - framed in the programme of these Letras Galegas - and coinciding with the start of summer and...
Free
04/08/2025 - 25/08/2025
Feito a Man is a street festival that began in 2003, organised by the cultural association Cidade Vella in unique venues across the city of Santiago de Compostela.
Throughout August, Feito a Man curates and presents a continuous cycle of performances featuring a wide range of artistic...
Free
03/09/2025
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. Under the slogan...
21/11/2025
21:00 | Riquela Club
Acouga bids farewell to their first album Ámbar with an unrepeatable concert, full of energy, emotion and surprise collaborations (yet to be announced).
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.
03/02/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Trío Zukan —txistu, microtonal accordion and percussion— brings to the Contemporáneas series one of its most personal projects.
24/02/2026
21:00 | Modus Vivendi
As part of the CIRCUM programme, Alba María and Nacho Muñoz present Aira, an open creative space where oral tradition, improvised speech and sound arts come together in a performative, volatile and humour-driven proposal. Born from a spontaneous foliada blending traditional...
Theatre
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.
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
20:00 | Salón Teatro
Renowned Argentine actor Gabriel Fernández is touring Galicia with the play GALEGO.
18/09/2025 - 21/09/2025
22:00 | Sala Capitol
Ultranoite returns to the Capitol in September and will be the only dates of 2025! The political cabaret that makes fun of current affairs takes on a world dominated by the ultra-rich. Humour without tariffs. Criticism with denomination of origin.
02/10/2025
20:30 | Salón Teatro
Improvised theatre based on the CDG production: LA SERIE CLOPEN
03/11/2025
20:00 | Teatro Principal
Since 2023, Galiza Cultura has been celebrating Samaín through Castelao’s work Un ollo de vidro. Memorias dun esquelete (Ed. Céltiga, 1922). The skeleton protagonist recounts his memories and adventures beyond death, reflecting on the world of the living. On November 3rd at...
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.
10/01/2026
20:30 | Auditorio Abanca
Celso Fernández Sanmartín, Mofa e Befa and Quico Cadaval return with Noites de retranca, Galicia’s longest-running comedy show.
Gastronomy
Free
18/06/2025
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. Under the...
20/02/2026 - 23/02/2026
Establishments in Santiago will offer Caldo de Gloria this weekend, as part of Rosalía's Day activities.
For children
Evento virtual
05/02/2025 - 30/04/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The Galiverso project launches a new virtual reality experience, Galiverso no corazón da pedra, which proposes a journey into the interior of our land to discover the natural, archaeological, ethnographic and historical wonders of our territory, where the stone, the one that shapes us...
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...
26/04/2026
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Gran Gala del Circo celebrates International Circus Day at the Auditorio de Galicia. Coordinated by Pistacatro, the show brings together local and international artists in a spectacular event full of juggling, acrobatics, humor, balance, and magic for the whole family. Don’t wait to...
Festival
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
01/04/2025
19:00 | Teatro Principal
Compostela will host the Galician Arts Day 2025 event on April 1st, paying tribute this year to the Compostela-born creator Isaac Díaz Pardo. This event, organized by the Santiago City Council and the Royal Galician Academy of Fine Arts, will feature a laudatio by academic...
Free
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
Free
04/06/2026 - 30/06/2026
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION.
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...
Cinema
Free
02/04/2025
20:30 | Teatro do Camiño
Presentation of Ferro, madeira e pel, directed by Paco Guitián, a member of Seminario Galán, which highlights the role of the cantareiras honored on the 2025 Día das Letras.
A story told through the voices of Tanxugueiras, Bieito Romero, Haydn, Xabier Díaz, Carlos...
Fiestas
Free
31/05/2025
13:00 | Parque de Belvís
This is a day of diverse music, activities for all audiences and a varied gastronomic offer within the framework of the Ascension Festivities 2025.
23/06/2025
The neighbourhoods of Compostela join in the celebration of the San Xoán festivities, offering a wide range of activities for everyone.
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.
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...
15/02/2026
19:00
On the afternoon of February 15, the parish of O Eixo in Santiago de Compostela celebrates its traditional carnival with the so-called Xenerais da Ulla perfomance, which involves a stagin where different characters take part.
Guided visits
29/10/2025
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
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.
Free
01/10/2025 - 04/10/2025
Debates, humor and live music come to Santiago with the second edition of Mover os Marcos, taking place from October 1 to 4. The event combines conversations on language, ecology, identities and housing with spoken concerts, live podcasts, urban dance and musical performances. This cultural and...
Free
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
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.
19/02/2026
19:30 | Libraría Couceiro
Musicologist and educator Xaime Estévez Vila presents the talk “Twenty-five Discographic Editions for Rosalía de Castro”, an overview of the monographic recordings dedicated to the most musically interpreted author in Galician literature. The session highlights...
Exhibitions
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.
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.
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.
01/04/2025 - 30/04/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Exhibition from the Losada Díaz collection
01/04/2025 - 30/04/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Ediciós do Castro, founded after the creation of the Laboratorio de Formas by Díaz Pardo and Seoane, published over 70 works across approximately 20 collections between 1963 and 2008. Among these collections, we highlight the Biblioteca do Exilio, a small selection of works from...
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.
09/04/2025 - 30/05/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Rosalía de Castro was born the same year that, for the first time, a woman gained entry to the National Library of Spain. It is not known whether the Galician writer repeated such a feat during her years in Madrid, but the truth is that she was never able to pursue university studies....
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...
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...
10/05/2025 - 24/08/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
The 13th Ethnographic Photography Biennial by Members of the Museo do Pobo Galego, Entre Amigos, focuses this year mainly on the 2025 Letras Galegas celebrations, with several snapshots highlighting the intangible heritage of Galician music, featuring works by Denís...
25/05/2025
12:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The exhibition Ollos de Vidro. As formas doutra historia de Galicia concludes its run with an activity that goes beyond the exhibition space to bring the words of Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao to life on stage. Two exceptional storytellers, Quico Cadaval and Celso F....
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
03/07/2025 - 15/10/2025
Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
Curated by Carmen Becerra Suárez, a specialist in the author’s work, the exhibition offers a vital and creative journey through the different stages of Torrente Ballester’s life, from his childhood in Ferrol to his final years in Salamanca, providing a deep insight into this...
06/07/2025
11:00 | Museo do Pobo Galego
A guided tour led by the cantareiras Hadri and Jenni Felpete, who will sing traditional coplas at each of the different stops along the route, which will end in front of the exhibition Cantareiras. Orality – Creation – Transmission.
23/09/2025 - 11/10/2025
18:00 | Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
APAMP (Association of Families and People with Cerebral Palsy of Vigo) presents at the Fundación Eugenio Granell the exhibition Art in the Street, featuring two artistic interventions carried out by the organization in the streets of Vigo over recent years, always with active...
25/11/2025 - 09/12/2025
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The Eugenio Granell Foundation celebrates the anniversaries of Eugenio Granell and Amparo Segarra with a special program that includes Open Days and a reading marathon.
12/12/2025 - 13/01/2026
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
The CGAC presents Arquivar para coidar (NOS), an exhibition resulting from the citizen-participation workshop O Forno da Amara, developed over six months with residents from nearby neighbourhoods. The show highlights community memory through photography, gathering family images, oral...
29/01/2026 - 26/04/2026
Museo do Pobo Galego
An exhibition inviting visitors to discover the symbolic, artistic, and social value of masks through pieces from over 40 countries collected by traveler and collector Nacho Rovira, combined with Galician masks, some of which belong to the Museo do Pobo Galego.
The exhibition will remain open...
26/02/2026 - 06/09/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
As estacións do ano is a unique contemporary art exhibition that invites visitors to open their senses, walk slowly, and immerse themselves in each work. Based on a concept of spatial immersion, the Museo Centro Gaiás becomes a space where art is experienced through...
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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