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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

21/06/2024
19:00 | Sede SGAE/Fundación Autor
The Fundación SGAE, at the initiative of the Consejo Territorial SGAE Galicia, presents the fifth edition of the Acento festival.
25/06/2024
21:30
Sixth edition of Seráns en Feixóo, which as every year will be held in the praza de Feixóo, in the old part of Santiago de Compostela. The concerts will take place between 25 May and 28 June at 9:30 p.m.  
Free
03/07/2024
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.  
14/07/2024 - 17/07/2024
This event, a pioneer in Galicia, will bring together dozens of Galician flautists with others from different parts of Europe.
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.
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.  
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.
13/10/2024
12:00 | Teatro Principal
Season 2024/25 ‘WALKS Autumn-winter cycle  
16/10/2024 - 19/10/2024
Professional event that will take place from 16 to 19 October in different venues around the city. Discover the cultural and musical richness of Galicia in this great event. With activities for both the public and professionals. From talks and concerts to showcases, with days full of learning...
31/10/2024
20:30 | Auditorio de Galicia
Concert as part of the subscription programme of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, entitled "Nonconformists".  
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. 
21/12/2024 - 23/12/2024
A proposal designed to highlight the work done by the choral groups of the City Council of Santiago.  
27/12/2024
20:30 | Teatro Principal
After many years without hearing from them, the great masters of Galician light song return to the stage with a Christmas concert at the Teatro Principal. The recital is intended as a tribute from Galicia to its two favourite ‘trangalleiros’. 
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
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.
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. 

Theatre

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. 
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.

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.
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

21/12/2024
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
A Xanela do Maxín. Storytelling with puppets
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...

Festival

13/07/2024
10:30
Third 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.

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.
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

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

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

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...

Others

25/06/2024
20:00
Are you ready for a fascinating journey through the mysteries of Italy and Galicia? Next 25th June, from 20:00 to 21:30h, we invite you to discover their darkest and most intriguing secrets.

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.
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.

Exhibitions

20/12/2023 - 29/12/2024
Museo do Pobo Galego
A tribute to the anthropologist and folklorist Gustav Henningsen (Slagelse, 1934 - Lyngby, 2023). A small selection of his images will be on display as part of the museum tour.
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.
28/05/2024 - 26/01/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Other Possible Stories brings together the work of six contemporary artists born in the 1950s and linked to Galicia in their lives and careers, whose careers are worth reviewing and contextualising in order, as the title of the project states, to generate other stories to complement those...
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. 
18/10/2024 - 06/01/2025
Auditorio de Galicia
The exhibition Xaquín Marín, humor líquido galego arrives at the Auditorio de Galicia to show a careful selection of pieces that cover the more than sixty years of profession of the cartoonist, painter, muralist, caricaturist and artist born in Fene in 1943.
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.  
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.
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...
13/12/2024 - 11/01/2025
Museo do Pobo Galego
The Council of Cerdedo-Cotobade and the Antonio Fraguas Fraguas Foundation organise in the Museo do Pobo Galego an exhibition of the original illustrations made by Miguelanxo Prado for the book Os animais de Fraguas.
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 - 31/03/2025
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

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...