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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

For children

28/11/2025 - 05/01/2026
16:00 | Iglesia de San Fiz de Solovio
From Friday, 28 November, to Sunday, 5 January, visitors can enjoy the impressive Nativity scene created and installed by the craftsman José Uzal: more than 500 figures make up this display, which includes various scenes, moving pieces, and special lighting and sound effects.

Fairs

14/06/2025
10:00 | Área Central
A leading event in innovation, creativity, and technology, now in its 11th edition. The fair kicks off with an opening day focused on entrepreneurship and social innovation, held at Área Central and featuring numerous activities for the whole family.

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...

Cinema

11/03/2026 - 15/03/2026
Museo do Pobo Galego
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. The International Ethnographic Film Festival of the Museo do Pobo Galego aims to present recent audiovisual works in the field of ethnography and visual anthropology. The screenings take place in the Museo do Pobo Galego, the...

Fiestas

Free
05/06/2025 - 07/06/2025
New edition of the local commerce festival with music and activities for the whole family.
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...
19/12/2025 - 07/01/2026
Praza Roxa
The Praza Roxa will be one of the focal points of Christmas in Santiago. Concerts, games, performances and attractions will fill the Ensanche of Santiago de Compostela with light and colour.

Others

01/10/2025 - 04/10/2025
Debates, humor and live music come to Santiago with the second edition of Mover os Marcos, taking place from October 1 to 4. The event combines conversations on language, ecology, identities and housing with spoken concerts, live podcasts, urban dance and musical performances. This cultural and...
07/11/2025 - 09/11/2025
Área Central
Área Central will host the first edition of Mercadelas. Mercado con pegada from November 7 to 9, with the support of the Commerce Department. The event will bring together artisans and entrepreneurs specialized in creating products for animals and their humans, offering a wide...
28/11/2025 - 29/11/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Xuventude na onda, the major event that connects young Galician talent with innovation, science, and culture. A space for inspiration, learning, and networking.

Exhibitions

14/05/2025 - 11/07/2025
O Museo máis pequeno da cidade is an artistic expression project aimed at the residents of Compostela, which also seeks to give visibility to the collaborating local businesses.
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...
07/07/2025 - 30/08/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
In the context of Castelao Year 2025, the exhibition project Costumes and Colors of Galicia. National Identity in the Art of Castelao aims to showcase the rich and significant presence of traditional clothing in the pictorial and graphic work of Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao.
08/07/2025 - 26/09/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
Twenty-five years ago, an exceptional archaeological discovery took place in the city of Lugo. During the renovation of the Pazo de Montenegro to convert it into the headquarters of the Campus Vice-Rectorate, the remains of a well-preserved Roman domus were found, which contained a mithraeum...
12/09/2025 - 26/09/2025
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
Exhibition Deconstruction by textile artist Pierre Louis Geldenhuys.
Free
17/09/2025 - 31/10/2025
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
The artist Amabel Míguez de la Sierra presents the exhibition ‘Abuso’ at the University Church. On this occasion, the creator shows works on paper, mainly drawings, sometimes of large format, allowing her to combine a technique as basic as drawing with an original...
25/09/2025 - 28/11/2025
Facultad de Filología
From September 25, the first floor of the Faculty of Philology will host the exhibition The Creative Emotion. Manuel Gómez Román and Galicianist Architecture, which explores the career of the architect from Vigo, a leading figure of Galicianism and a key exponent of...
17/10/2025 - 28/11/2025
Colexio de Fonseca
The Upper Cloister of the Colexio de Fonseca hosts the exhibition The First Female Professors of the Complutense University of Madrid, which highlights the pioneering women in teaching and research at the UCM, including the Galician scholars Emilia Pardo Bazán, Antonia Ferrín...
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...
13/11/2025 - 15/11/2025
11:00 | Área Central
Collectors' fair, toys, music and cinema.
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 - 31/07/2026
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...

Heritage

11/04/2025 - 20/04/2025
Easter is also a good time to visit some of the small treasures hidden in the city, which during these dates are shown to the visitor taking on a special dimension and meaning; because Santiago is a place of reflection, passion, worship... but above all, a real jewel for lovers of sacred...