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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

22/12/2024
18:00 | Auditorio de Galicia
The Auditorio de Galicia hosts a concert based on the book-disc entitled O segredo de Joseph Haydn by the author Suso de Toro and illustrated by Xosé Cobas.
20/09/2025
21:00
The event Micro Abierto (Poetry & Music) will give each participant 6 minutes to share their poetry, music, or any other artistic proposal.

Dance

17/10/2025
20:00 | Palacio de Congresos e Exposicións de Galicia
El espectáculo Luna. Oda a Federico García Lorca, dirigido e interpretado por la bailaora Rocío Pozo, es una propuesta flamenca que rinde homenaje a la fascinación del poeta granadino por la luna. A través de la danza, la poesía y la música en...

Theatre

02/04/2025
21:00 | Sala Capitol
‘As Rhumorosas’ is a show that mixes monologues, comedy sketches, poetry and music, bringing us closer to the most unknown details of great Galician illustrious women such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, María Casares or even legends such as Pepa A Loba. Written, directed and...
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.
25/10/2025 - 26/10/2025
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.
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...

Gastronomy

22/02/2025 - 23/02/2025
Fifty establishments in Santiago will offer Caldo de Gloria this weekend, as part of Rosalía's Day activities.

For children

22/02/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Rosalía Day with storytelling by Ramiro Neira
22/03/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
We celebrate Poetry Day with a storytelling by Servando Barreiro
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’;...
25/04/2025
17:00 | Mupega (Museo Pedagóxico de Galicia)
On the occasion of Book Day, we will take a look at the beginnings of writing to understand the importance of this tool for communication and recording information. We will get to know and experiment with different supports and tools used for writing throughout history, focusing on this...
13/09/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by  Juste Kamishibai
27/09/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Rhymes, puns, songs and lots of humour. Migallas Teatro brings the show Brincadeiras de lingua to the Library of Galicia. A production that combines storytelling, puppets and music to rediscover the enormous wealth of Galician popular children's literature, on the occasion of the European Day...

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

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. 
16/05/2025 - 01/06/2025
Parque de la Alameda
Old and second-hand books, antique and rare books, out-of-print books and even some collectors' items that you can't miss.   Participants: - Madrid Books (Madrid)- O Fiandón (A Coruña)- A Tobeira de Oza (A Coruña)- Libros Quique (València)- Arcadia (A...
28/06/2025 - 06/07/2025
The Oral Storytelling Festival brings storytellers from around the world, and a wide range of Galician talent and new emerging voices.
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.
01/10/2025
19:00 | Libraría Couceiro
On Wednesday 1 at 7:00 PM, Libraría Couceiro will host a literary talk on the book Ensaio sobre o efémero by Vítor Vaqueiro, organized by the Cultural Association O Galo.
03/10/2025 - 12/10/2025
Praza da Quintana
SELIC (Compostela Book Week) is a literary event that transforms Plaza de la Quintana into an open cultural space, with book presentations, readings, workshops and activities for all audiences.
02/10/2026 - 11/10/2026
Plaza de la Quintana
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. SELIC (Compostela Book Week) is the city’s main literary event. For several days, Plaza de la Quintana comes alive with books, authors and activities that celebrate reading through presentations, readings, workshops and events...

Courses and workshops

29/11/2025
11:30
Creative Writing Workshop “As Compostelas que hai en min”, with Daniel Asorey

Guided visits

26/02/2025
17:30 | Mupega (Museo Pedagógico de Galicia)
This year the Day of Galician Letters will be dedicated to the cantareras, women who throughout history perpetuated the language and musical knowledge, which for a long time did not have a presence in formal education. In this thematic route we will analyse, through a tour of several of the...
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.

Others

29/06/2025
11:30 | Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
This Sunday from 11:30 a.m., we celebrate Pride Day with LeComigo on the Foundation’s terrace. Guided by writer Eva Mejuto and coordinated by Mercedes Corbillón, we’ll welcome you with a coffee and begin with one hour of silent reading, followed by a chance to talk about our...

Conferences

05/04/2025
12:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
Conversation between actor Quico Cadaval and writer Carlos Callón.
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

20/04/2024 - 31/12/2024
Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
The library of the museum presents within its program Library in action a selection of publications from its bag of duplicates related to Santiago. Among them there are books of history, urbanism, debates and photographs, fiction and social life.
21/01/2025 - 29/03/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Anthology of the work of Bernardino Graña, one of the founding members of the Brais Pinto group, a full member of the Royal Academy since 2010 and one of the most recognised voices of contemporary Galician literature by the public and critics alike. This exhibition serves as a tribute to...
03/02/2025 - 28/02/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
In 2025, one hundred and forty years after his death, the Ánxel Casal Library of Santiago de Compostela wants to celebrate his birth, on 23 February 1837, dedicating the whole month to his work with this bibliographic exhibition that you will find in the Children's Room. 
04/02/2025 - 31/03/2025
Facultad de Filología
This exhibition, curated by doctoral student Laura Paz Fentanes, is a small sample of the material held in the José Ángel Valente Chair of Poetry and Aesthetics, directed by Claudio Rodríguez Fer and created after the poet's appointment as doctor honoris causa by the...
05/03/2025 - 29/03/2025
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
On the occasion of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of Editorial Galaxia, the travelling exhibition ‘Crear porvir. 75th anniversary of Editorial Galaxia’, an exhibition that traces the history of the publishing house, from its foundation in 1950 to the present day,...
05/03/2025 - 31/03/2025
Facultad de Filología
Exhibition on the author of great works of children's and young people's literature.
21/03/2025 - 19/04/2025
Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Bibliographic exhibition on the Sevillian poet
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.
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....
06/06/2025 - 04/07/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The contact between Camilo José Cela and the women featured in this exhibition was mainly epistolary. Hence, the presence of various handwritten and/or typed letters, in which the words of both senders and recipients bear witness to their emotions.
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...
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...
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...
22/10/2025 - 28/11/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition “Lorca and Galicia: 90th Anniversary of the First Edition of Seis poemas galegos” opens on October 22 at the Colegio de Fonseca to commemorate ninety years since the publication of Federico García Lorca’s Galician work. Organized by the University Library...

Annual

Free
02/05/2026 - 10/05/2026
Parque de la Alameda
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. Annual fair that is held in the city’s most emblematic park, where you can find bargains in a great variety of publications, including books about Santiago and Galicia.  
27/06/2026 - 12/07/2026
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. Atlántica, Festival Internacional de Narración Oral, was born in 2013 with headquarters in Santiago de Compostela with a clear vocation of being an encounter of voices and stories with an atlanticist profile and now it is...