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90 matches: 5 Music | 15 Guided visits | 6 Theatre | 1 Gastronomy | 1 For children | 1 Festival | 6 Literature | 1 Educational events | 2 Cinema | 1 Courses and workshops | 2 Celebrations | 5 Fiestas | 1 Annual | 1 Others | 1 Congresses and meetings | 16 Conferences | 1 Dance | 2 Debates - colloquy | 26 Exhibitions | 2 Religious
Music
15/04/2025
20:00 | Convento de Santa Clara
Concert of the cycle ‘De Lugares e Órganos’ by Annelie Gahl & MVSICA.PLAGENSIS.
16/04/2025
19:00 | Vide, Vide! Espazo Enocultural
Conversation with violinist Annelie Gahl, as part of the cycle ‘De Lugares e Órganos’.
31/03/2026
11:00
OUTRAS PAISAXES, OUTROS TONS DA CIDADE – Memoria silente: Os órganos de Compostela de fóra
Free
05/04/2026
20:00 | Convento del Carmen
The ensemble Ars Atlántica, directed by harpist Manuel Vilas, presents for the first time at the closing of the festival Cities of Gold and Silver a project born from careful research that recovers a beautiful and almost forgotten musical heritage. The program spans music...
Theatre
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...
09/05/2025 - 10/05/2025
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Night of Luar. Crossroads of paths. A small, melancholic man enters the scene. He is the character of O Xestal. With a candle in his hand, dressed as a strong Rosalian piper, he comes out to a young garrido. It is death. O Xestal refuses to recognise death in such an atypical appearance. When...
Free
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.
16/12/2025
20:00 | Salón Teatro
José Afonso, Live at the Coliseums, 1983 is a multidisciplinary show blending music, theatre, performance, and poetry, reinterpreting Zeca’s legacy from a contemporary perspective inspired by Gig Theatre.
07/03/2026
19:00 | Teatro Principal
Theatrical performance of AUTO DOS SIMULADOS DA CARAVILLA by Manuel María. Produced by the S.C. Theater Group: Medulio, directed by Francisco Rodríguez. In collaboration with A.C. O Galo.
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
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
28/02/2025 - 26/10/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A virtual journey to where it all began
Festival
21/02/2026 - 22/02/2026
From February 21 to 22, Santiago celebrates the 189th anniversary of Rosalía de Castro’s birth and the 160th anniversary of the publication of Las literatas. Activities for all audiences, free entry until full capacity. Organized by the Language Area of the Deputación da...
Literature
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.
17/10/2025
19:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Oral storytelling show for adults by Sole Felloza
16/01/2026
20:00 | Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
The Cultural Association O Galo presents the monograph SANTIAGO 1923 / 1936, which brings together the contents of the lecture series held in 2025. The 294-page book, illustrated with numerous photographs, features contributions by twelve researchers and will be given free to attendees....
27/02/2026
20:00 | Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
AC. O Galo presents the book Personaxes da Galiza Medieval IV, a new volume in the series through which the association continues contributing to the recovery of Galicia’s historical memory. This edition explores the centuries when Galicia was a kingdom of its own, shaped by a...
02/03/2026
19:00 | Centro Sociocultural de Conxo
AC. O Galo presents the booklet 170 Anos do Banquete de Conxo, a volume in which philologist Xoán Costa delves into the collective memory of this historic event with a precise, erudite and accessible style, shedding light on the social, political and symbolic dimension of...
Educational events
25/03/2026
16:45 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
Amparo Segarra. Paper Bodies. Reviewing Our Art – The day starts at 16:45 with the opening presentation. At 17:00, Carmen Gaitán Salinas, researcher at the CSIC Institute of History, will give a lecture. At 18:15, the presentations session begins with Rosario Sarmiento, Lorena...
Cinema
Free
28/01/2026
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
As part of the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Operation Compostela, the preview screening of the documentary short Expediente Velo (2026), directed by Aser Álvarez (30 min.), will take place within the Philosophical Film Series of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of...
Free
17/03/2026
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Antes de Maio is an audiovisual project by Aqueladas that blends fiction and documentary, awarded the Prize for Singular Cultural Projects for Social Improvement by the Provincial Council of A Coruña. Presented as a visual novel, it places the audience in the role of a first-year student...
Courses and workshops
07/02/2026
16:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
In the workshop From Wood to Cloth, we will follow the reverse path of the artist, printing floral motifs, plant shapes and organic elements onto fabric—an accessible, contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional pañuelo aesthetic present in Asorey’s work.
Celebrations
28/03/2026 - 05/04/2026
Festivity of Tourist Interest of Galicia
Holy Week in a spiritual, historic city, peace and much more
Fiestas
Free
07/06/2025
12:00 | 20. Iglesia de San Martín Pinario
A traditional festival where the San Martiño Pinario neighborhood travels back to 1975. A day full of celebration, with parades, vermouth hour, a tute card tournament, traditional games for children and adults, live music and lots of dancing.
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...
17/01/2026 - 22/02/2026
Santiago de Compostela
Very close to Santiago:
Boqueixón, A Estrada, Silleda, Touro, Vedra, Vila de Cruces
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION.
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”...
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
16/05/2025
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Guided tour that reviews the history and the figures honored on Galician Literature Day from its first year (1963) to the present. Special attention will be given to individuals and works connected to Santiago.
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
27/09/2025
12:00
The Cultural Association O Galo invites you to join the walking tour “Meeting and Social Spaces. Santiago 1923-1936”, a journey through the memory of the city that revisits the places where social and cultural life flourished in Compostela during the early 20th century. The...
11/10/2025
11:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Guided tour led by Encarna Otero
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...
18/10/2025
12:00
Tour organized by the Cultural Association O Galo and led by Antonia Pérez, as part of the series Santiago de Compostela 1923-1936.
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...
01/12/2025 - 05/12/2025
The Invisible Heritage Week is a programme, promoted by the Santiago City Council through Compostela Cultura, that aims to change this. Its goal is to open the doors of true treasures, usually closed to the public, and to offer exclusive guided tours in small groups to ensure...
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...
28/02/2026
11:00 | Café Casino
A journey through the 150 years of history of the Casino de Santiago and its artistic and decorative heritage in the Rüa do Vilar: old costumes, documents, photographs and board games.
23/04/2026
18:30 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Guided walk by Maos Innovación Social.
Others
09/06/2025 - 13/06/2025
Catedral
June 9 marks the celebration of International Archives Day, commemorating the establishment of the International Council on Archives in 1948. To honor this occasion, the Chapter of the S.A.M.I. Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and its Archive-Library are organizing Open Days from June 9 to...
Congresses and meetings
20/07/2026 - 23/07/2026
The International Jacobean Lessons of the USC reach their 17th edition this year under the title heritage and voices of the camino de santiago, consolidating their position as a key forum for study and reflection on the Jacobean phenomenon. Organized by the Cátedra do Camiño de...
Conferences
22/05/2025
19:30 | San Francisco Hotel Monumento ****
The depictions of Francis of Assisi in Compostelan art feature unique and distinctive iconographies, linked to the legend, history, and tradition of his presence in Santiago. The lecture by José Manuel García Iglesias, Professor of Art History at the University of Santiago de...
26/05/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference in collaboration with the Federación de Ateneos de Galicia, entitled ‘Rompendo as barreiras do localismo: Vigo en Santiago’, which will be given by Manuel Bragado, writer, editor and professor.
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.
18/06/2025
19:30 | Iglesia y Convento de San Domingos de Bonaval
A profesora de Historia da Arte, Marta Cendón ofrece esta conferencia con fins benéficos. Os fondos irán destinados a Cáritas Interparroquial.
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...
14/10/2025
19:30 | Libraría Couceiro
Lecture by Miguel García-Fernández, from the Instituto de Estudos Galegos Padre Sarmiento (CSIC-Xunta de Galicia). Organized by the Cultural Association O Galo.
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....
Free
24/11/2025
18:00 | Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
Monday, 24 November, 6:00 p.m. – Nicolás Sartorius: “The Struggle for Freedom”
Introduced by Amelia Pérez, Secretary General of CCOO Galicia.
A lawyer, politician and journalist, Sartorius was a key figure of the anti-Franco movement. A member of...
19/02/2026
12:30 | Facultade de Filosofía
The lecture “Hegel with Žižek: The Trauma of the Absolute”, part of the Mazarelos Lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy, will be given by Berta M. Pérez (Universitat de València). The session examines the complex relationship between substance and subject in...
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...
06/03/2026
19:30 | Centro Sociocultural O Ensanche
The round table “Consequences of the Changes in the Heritage Law of Galicia” will take place on Friday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Centro Sociocultural do Ensanche, with free entry until full capacity. Speakers will include Mercedes Queixas, Member of the Parliament of...
25/03/2026
19:15 | Museo Diocesano e Igrexa de San Martiño Pinario
AC. O Galo organizes the cycle Iconography and Architecture in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, 11th–15th centuries, at the S. Felipe Neri Oratory (S. Martiño Pinario building). The first lecture, “The Romanesque Architecture of the Cathedral of...
04/04/2026
12:15 | Numax
O ÓRGANO SAE Á RÚA-Meeting with Manuel Vilas, live music and conversation space
09/04/2026
19:15 | Monasterio e Iglesia de San Martiño Pinario
Lecture entitled ‘Romanesque capitals of Santiago Cathedral’, given by Victoriano Nodar (University of Vigo) and organised by the O Galo Cultural Association.
Free
11/04/2026
10:30 | Museo do Pobo Galego
On the occasion of Dance Month, the Museo do Pobo Galego is organizing a new edition of the event A voltas co baile, accompanied by the activity Petís a voltas. Entroidanzas, in a double proposal that invites the public to explore the universe of masks and Entroido through dance.
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,...
16/04/2026
20:30 | Vide, Vide! Espazo Enocultural
Vide, Vide hosts a talk on O Imperialismo no século XXI, a book by professor and international analyst Duarte Correa Piñeiro, featuring the author alongside activist Anxo Louzao. The work offers a critical perspective on contemporary imperialism, challenging the idea that it...
Exhibitions
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.
Free
21/03/2025 - 19/04/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Bibliographic exhibition on the Sevillian poet
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...
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...
24/04/2025 - 24/05/2025
Facultad de Filología
As part of the activities organized for the Faculty of Philology Week, coinciding with the celebration of its patron saint, Isidore of Seville, the faculty is launching the exhibition Isidorus relectus: The Power of the Word on the first floor. The aim is to promote the heritage of the...
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...
02/05/2025 - 31/05/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Exhibition organised by the Confederación Nacional do Traballo de Compostela
13/05/2025 - 14/06/2025
Mupega (Museo Pedagóxico de Galicia)
Exhibition on Castelao in his dual role as a teacher at the Pontevedra Institute and as a citizen who, through his work, shared a critical perspective on the state of education in the Galicia of his time.
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.
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...
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.
04/08/2025 - 10/08/2025
Sinaladas: a loita das mulleres no século XX, cen anos de conquistas e represións presents a global view of the memory of Galician women throughout the past century.
05/09/2025 - 30/09/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition “Lying with Mastery. Photographic Montages by Augusto Pacheco (1948-1973)”, curated by photographers Vítor Vaquero and Manuel Pérez Rúa and visual artist Ánxel Huete.
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.
Free
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.
06/11/2025 - 24/01/2026
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
Stéphane Levallois, acclaimed creator of fantastic cinema, presents “Goya-Hellboy. An Iconography of Monsters”, exploring Goya’s monsters in dialogue with the superhero Hellboy. The exhibition features 72 original illustrations, key Goya prints, and works by Hellboy...
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 - 08/03/2026
Casa do Cabido
The exhibition, curated by historian Miguel García-Fernández and featuring original illustrations by artist Héitor Picallo, highlights and restores the value of the role played in late-medieval Galicia by the women of the Moscoso lineage through informative panels, an...
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...
28/12/2025 - 31/05/2026
Museo do Pobo Galego
The Museum of the Galician People hosts the temporary exhibition of the sculptures by Master Mateo —Abraham/Jeremías and Isaac/Ezequiel— recovered by the City Council of Santiago after being looted during the Franco regime. The exhibition, located in the South Wing of the...
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...
18/03/2026 - 30/04/2026
Colexio de Fonseca
The Juana de Vega Chair opens ‘Women and Commerce in Galicia, 19th and 20th Centuries’, an exhibition highlighting the role of women as an economic and social driving force in Galicia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
02/04/2026 - 04/04/2026
Colexio de Fonseca
Exhibition Camelia, flor de Galicia. From April 2 to 4, the Pazo Colegio de Fonseca hosts this exhibition highlighting the beauty of the camellia in dialogue with the colours and traditions of Galician dress, offering a visual journey through Galicia’s cultural identity.
Religious
11/04/2025 - 20/04/2025
Festivity of Tourist Interest of Galicia
Holy Week in a spiritual, historic city, peace and much more
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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