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73 matches: 16 Music | 11 Theatre | 3 Gastronomy | 2 For children | 1 Literature | 1 Social events | 1 Annual | 1 Cinema | 4 Fiestas | 6 Guided visits | 6 Others | 5 Conferences | 1 Debates - colloquy | 15 Exhibitions | 1 Religious
Music
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.
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.
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...
04/07/2025 - 06/07/2025
Colegiata Santa María a Real do Sar
The festival FOLK NA BEIRA DO SAR brings two days of culture and coexistence in the Camino de la Plata designed to enjoy music, gastronomy, art and literature. A full programme of activities that will culminate with a grand finale by Carlos Núñez.
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31/10/2025
20:00 | Sala Capitol
Presentation in Compostela of his latest album called ‘III’.
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
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.
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.
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...
10/03/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Under the direction of Fernando Buide, the ensemble Música Práctica invites multi-instrumentalist Abraham Cupeiro to explore the relationship between water and the cosmos as part of the Contemporáneas series.
13/04/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
The renowned Plural Ensemble, conducted by Fabián Panisello, brings to the Contemporáneas series one of the most refined events of the season. Nieve sobre nieve is a proposal of virtuosity and delicacy that focuses on the work of Mercedes Zavala, a composer based in...
12/05/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
As part of the Contemporáneas 2025-2026 series, Compostela In-audita is a project of listening, documentation and artistic transformation of Santiago de Compostela’s contemporary sound heritage, materialised in a 60-minute audiovisual concert created from images...
23/05/2026
11:00
Water is life, memory, and transformation. The Sarela River was once a source of food, leisure, and economy for Compostela, when the city was just a small village—a silent witness to the passing of time… Yet that’s only a saying, because the Sarela is anything but silent. Its...
29/05/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Traspielas is the new project by Su Garrido Pombo together with Macarena Montesinos (cello), Iago Ramilo (saxophone), Marco Maril (electronics) and Fran Rodríguez Casal (visuals). In this work, they celebrate the collective memory of a village through a musical, poetic and visual creation.
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.
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
Free
17/10/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Oral storytelling performance for the Intangible Heritage Day.
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...
29/01/2026 - 30/01/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
RECONVERSIÓN is a large-scale production for adult audiences, featuring eight actor-musicians who form a charanga and perform the soundtrack live.
20/02/2026 - 22/02/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
ICTUS is a play about memory: about the deep connection between a strong collective memory and a healthy democracy, and about the still-open wounds of historical memory. Its guiding thread is A derradeira leición do mestre, the last painting signed by Castelao in exile, when he...
27/02/2026 - 28/02/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
One night, in a multi-storey building somewhere in Europe, the lives of different characters intersect around a Thai-Chinese-Vietnamese fast-food restaurant called O Dragón de Ouro. There, a young Chinese man suffers intense toothache while searching for his missing sister, without...
26/03/2026 - 27/03/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
ARTUR UI, O OVO DA SERPE examines the current moment through the critical and ironic lens of epic theatre. A tribute to a 20th-century classic, the production explores mechanisms of power, the nature of authoritarianism, and its manifestations, drawing clear parallels with the resurgence...
06/06/2026
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
IRIBARNE is an irreverent stage investigation into a key figure of recent Galician and Spanish history. It follows the life of a man born in Rouco Varela during Alfonso XIII’s monarchy, who emigrated to Cuba and returned to navigate politics with ambition. The play explores power,...
Gastronomy
18/03/2025
18:30 | Fundación Ría
Ruthie Rogers visits Casa RIA on Tuesday, March 18 and continues the “Encuentros de mercado” series, a program of international meetings to promote the value of our markets in gastronomic culture.
23/04/2025
18:30 | Fundación Ría
The “Encontros de mercado” cycle closes with four restaurants from the neighbourhood to celebrate the link between their cuisine and local produce and markets.
Free
02/07/2025
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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.
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...
Free
24/07/2025 - 25/07/2025
Campus Universitario Sur
Festigal is a festival held at Campus Vida and promoted by the youth organisation Galiza Nova and the Galiza Sempre Foundation.
20/03/2026 - 23/03/2026
Romería de San Lázaro: 'Festa Gastronómica da Uña' [20-23 marzo 2026]
A religious and gastronomic festival. One of the most unique and oldest festivities in Galicia.
Guided visits
15/10/2025
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...
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...
12/11/2025
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...
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...
10/12/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C present Servas de Deus, donas de si, a free tour through Compostela’s enclosed convents that reveals the stories of power, resistance, and protagonism of the women who lived there, blending heritage interpretation and...
17/12/2025
19:00
During October, November, and December, the Itinerarios Patrimonio C present Servas de Deus, donas de si, a free tour through Compostela’s enclosed convents that reveals the stories of power, resistance, and protagonism of the women who lived there, blending heritage interpretation and...
Others
05/09/2025 - 12/09/2025
Centro Sociocultural de Conxo
The 38th Cultural Week of Conxo will take place from September 5 to 12, offering a diverse program of exhibitions, talks, concerts, intercultural workshops, sports, theater, traditional games, and routes through the local area. The event opens with Gabriel Tizón’s photo exhibition...
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.
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.
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...
10/01/2026 - 11/01/2026
Auditorio de Galicia
The ninth edition of Galicia Magic Fest arrives in Santiago de Compostela, the most anticipated magic event of the Christmas season. For 70 minutes, the world’s top illusionists—Juliana Chen, Stuart MacDonald, Mirko Callaci, Magus Utopia, and Pedro Volta—will deliver a unique...
19/02/2026
19:00 | Casa das Máquinas
Live episode of the podcast No es el fin del mundo focusing on the geopolitical dimension of particle physics. The event will feature Fernando Arancón, Alba Leiva and Eduardo Saldaña and will take place at Casa das Máquinas in Santiago de Compostela. Organised in...
Conferences
12/05/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference to commemorate Galician Literature Day titled «Eu cantar, cantar, cantei. As cantareiras e a poesía popular oral», to be given by Malores Villanueva, editor, literary critic, and Doctor in Galician Philology from USC.
17/09/2025
19:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
As part of the outreach talks “The Seized Avant-Garde” on the life and work of Francisco Miguel and Syra Alonso, organized by the Provincial Council of A Coruña and the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH), this event will take place in Santiago at the...
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.
31/10/2025
20:00 | Colegiata Santa María a Real do Sar
The Cultural Association O Galo will hold a round table on Santa María de Sar on Friday, 31 October, at 8:00 p.m. in the cloister of the Church of Sar, with the participation of Goretti Sanmartín, Míriam Louzao, Daniel Lorenzo, Victoriano Nodar and Ramón Yzquierdo....
04/11/2025
20:45
Lecture given by priest and parish priest Jose Manuel Guldrís Carreira (Josecho) as part of the Culturearte programme.
Debates - colloquy
07/02/2026
12:00 | Libraría Couceiro
The lecture explores the history of the powerful Castro family between the 13th and 14th centuries, focusing on their alliances, political conflicts, ties with Portugal and Castile, and the decisive influence they exerted on the Kingdom of Galicia. A narrative that retraces key figures,...
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.
14/11/2024 - 31/03/2025
Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
The work of Manuel Dávila García (Santiago de Compostela, 1934) tells a personal story, chiselled through goldsmithing. His training, working relationships and the space of the workshop construct an intimate, silver-plated intimacy, a story of life inscribed in the framework of a...
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.
Free
11/03/2025 - 31/03/2025
Centro Sociocultural de Vite
Exhibition of the artisan Ana Rosa Lista Sebe
01/04/2025 - 30/04/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Exhibition from the Losada Díaz collection
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...
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
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.
10/09/2025 - 11/10/2025
Fundación Ría
The exhibition brings together proposals that reflect on the abandonment of villages, depopulation, and the urgent need to recover the territory and the productive activities linked to it. The students’ work proposes strategic interventions aimed at reactivating rural areas through new...
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 - 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.
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...
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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