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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

16/05/2025
19:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
A folkloric microcosm where identities converge and community is created. Come and enjoy the intimacy, freshness, and personality of Abril’s music at the Biblioteca de Galicia on the occasion of Galician Literature Day.

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...
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...
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...
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.

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
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...
25/05/2025
12:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Oral storytelling, music, objects and new technologies to exalt the heritage of all the women honoured on the Día das Letras Galegas throughout time. The Biblioteca de Galicia hosts the workshop Desde Rosalía hasta las Cantareiras, a multidisciplinary proposal aimed at children...
13/09/2025
12:00 | Biblioteca Pública Ánxel Casal
Storytelling by  Juste Kamishibai
08/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mysterious challenges and intricate clues await in the corridors of the exhibition Castelao. Mirar por Galicia... Your mission? Solve them all to discover the hidden words and form the secret message that captures the spirit of the exhibition, as well as the life and thought of Castelao.
15/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mysterious challenges and intricate clues await in the corridors of the exhibition Castelao. Mirar por Galicia... Your mission? Solve them all to discover the hidden words and form the secret message that captures the spirit of the exhibition, as well as the life and thought of Castelao.
29/11/2025
18:00 | Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Mysterious challenges and intricate clues await in the corridors of the exhibition Castelao. Mirar por Galicia... Your mission? Solve them all to discover the hidden words and form the secret message that captures the spirit of the exhibition, as well as the life and thought of Castelao.
06/12/2025
18:00 | Teatro Compostela
This is a fun, scatological, and humorous play that provokes laughter and makes the audience empathize with the little mole, whose pride has been hurt. Environmentalism, reuse, and recycling are also present in this show, which invites us to look differently at a topic as natural as life...

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...
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.

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.

Conferences

03/02/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
Conference entitled “A escrita de Neira Vilas no ámbito do xornalismo”, which will be given by Xosé López, Professor of Journalism at the USC, and Fernando Redondo, President of the Xosé Neira Vilas Foundation.
10/02/2025
19:30 | Ateneo De Santiago
In collaboration with the Galician Federalist Association, there will be a colloquium entitled “O Federalismo en Castelao”, with the participation of Ramón Máiz, Professor of Political Science at the USC and President of the Galician Federalist Association, and...
05/04/2025
12:00 | Fundación Eugenio Granell
Conversation between actor Quico Cadaval and writer Carlos Callón.

Exhibitions

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,...
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...

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...