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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

Music

27/08/2022
21:00 | Monasterio e Iglesia de San Martiño Pinario
The composer, singer and poet from León, Amancio Prada, will give a free concert in the church of San Martiño Pinario, the first of four that the artist has programmed in monumental spaces in Galicia. The other three will be on the 28th in the Mosteiro de Armenteira, on the 3rd of...
21/09/2022 - 25/09/2022
24/09/2022
20:30 | Teatro Principal
25/09/2022
19:00 | Teatro Principal
Free
20/10/2022
21:30 | Atlántico
Opening concert of the Acoustic cycle in the Atlantico pub.
28/10/2022
19:00 | Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
05/11/2022
19:00 | Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
The new album by Xoán Curiel Treides conmigo! is presented in Santiago in trio format. Voices and guitar by Xoán Curiel, accompanied by Bleuenn Le Friec on the harp and Álex Salgueiro on the flutes.  An extraordinary opportunity to listen to the small format of...
18/11/2022
20:00 | Paraninfo da Universidade

Dance

22/07/2022
20:00 | Monasterio e Iglesia de San Martiño Pinario
Art, music, avant-garde stage, tradition and history come together in the fourth edition of 'Danza en el Camino', the travelling festival organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Junta de Castilla y León in the framework of the 21st Burgos & New York ...
15/09/2022 - 17/09/2022
This festival searchs for the dynamization and promotion of contemporary dance, offering for a week various activities around the dance: Training workshops, talks with dance professionals and small and medium format shows in Cloisters and Open Spaces of Compostela.
14/09/2023 - 16/09/2023
This festival searchs for the dynamization and promotion of contemporary dance, offering for a week various activities around the dance: Training workshops, talks with dance professionals and small and medium format shows in Cloisters and Open Spaces of Compostela.

Shows

08/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
09/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
15/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
16/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
22/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
23/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
29/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
30/07/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
05/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
06/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
12/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
13/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
19/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
20/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
26/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
27/08/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
02/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
03/09/2022
12:45 | Plaza del Obradoiro
03/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
09/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
10/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
16/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
17/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
23/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
24/09/2022
21:00 | Museo de Magia
Enjoy a one hour show full of magical surprises, fun and mystery in a unique place in Santiago de Compostela, the Kiko Pastur Magic Museum in a beautiful show room: the Magical Mystery Room.
15/12/2022
20:30 | Teatro Principal
Xisco Feijoo from Vigo and A garota não from Setubal will be responsible for filling the new edition of the aRi[t]mar gala with music. In addition to these artists, Lúa Mosquetera and Wilma Vieira will add a poetic note in a gala hosted by two well-known faces from the world of...

For children

02/12/2022 - 20/01/2023
All the Nativity scenes that you can visit this Christmas in Santiago de Compostela.

Fairs

Free
09/06/2022 - 11/06/2022
10/09/2022 - 11/09/2022
Monasterio e Iglesia de San Martiño Pinario
16/12/2022 - 18/12/2022
Christmas festival dedicated to the creative talent of artists, artisans, producers and entrepreneurs in Galicia: fashion design brands and accessories, handmade toys, jewelry and jewelry, illustration and stationery, decoration, ceramics, household objects...
09/06/2023 - 18/06/2023
Plaza de la Quintana
The Compostela Book Week is the result of collaborative work between the Santiago City Council and the Compostela Book Table. It was born last year, 2017, with the aim of meeting the demands and needs of booksellers and publishers in the Galician capital, and with the challenge of going one...

Festival

10/08/2022 - 27/08/2022
Feito a Man, the summer event with live music in Santiago de Compostela organised by the AC Cidade Vella, reaches its 19th edition with the return to normality after two years of restrictions. Under the slogan "no calor das rúas", in this 2022 the festival extends dates and programming...
20/08/2022 - 25/08/2022
Riquela Club
The Galician capital will have a new festival this year, the HOLANOLA FEST, which will celebrate its first edition from 20 to 25 September at the initiative of the Riquela Club.
17/10/2022 - 22/10/2022
Luz Poética is the first young poetry festival in Compostela, inspired by the figure of the Compostela poet Luz Fandiño, who represents a great inspiration for Galician youth. The meeting, which will take place in various emblematic spaces of the Galician capital, such as the...
04/11/2022 - 20/11/2022
Teatro Principal

Cinema

14/09/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de Xavier de Donato y Carmen Taín.
05/10/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film I walked with a zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de Miguel López Golán.
11/10/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film The innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de Xavier de Donato.
19/10/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film Onibaba (Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō, 1943), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de ime Rea e Beatriz Guillén Aleluia
26/10/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film A invasión dos ultracorpos [Invasion of the Body Snatchers] (Philip Kaufman, 1978), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de José María Rodríguez Ramos
02/11/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino , 2018), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de Carmen Taín e Inés Cao
07/12/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman, 2020), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de Miguel López Golán e Cinthia E. Romero
21/12/2022
18:00 | Facultade de Filosofía
Proyección del film Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997), dentro del Ciclo de Cine Mazarelos. La presentación correrá a cargo de Marcos Masián e Bia Guillén.

Fiestas

31/12/2022
23:00 | Plaza del Obradoiro
The best New Year's Eve plan in Santiago is to eat grapes in the Praza do Obradoiro whith the sound of the chimes of the Berenguela. The party starts at 23:00 with the Fania Blanco Show orchestra, which will offer three hours of music and dancing. There will be grapes and free cotillion for...
16/05/2023 - 21/05/2023
The celebration of the Fiestas de la Ascensión, the most beloved of the city's traditional festivals, brings a full programme that includes a wide range of musical styles, activities for young and old, the traditional bigheaded and the many attractions in the Alameda.
23/06/2023
O teu mellor San Xoan One more year, in the afternoon and evening of the 23rd, the 'Cacharelo Train' will circulate for free, between 5 pm and 10 pm, to encourage mobility for the neighbourhood of Santiago, tourists and visitors, who will be able to travel through the city's different...
23/06/2023
17:00 | Plaza de Mazarelos
O TEU MELLOR SAN XOAN Coinciding with the Festivities of San Xoán, which fill the city with colourful and magical bonfires, Santiago welcomes, after two years of hiatus, a new edition of the festival that includes in its programme a variety of activities and workshops for the...
24/06/2023
12:00
As part of the Compostela Diversa programme, a Festival will be held in Praza de Mazarelos with activities for all audiences.   FULL PROGRAMME FROM 12 JUNE ONWARDS.

Guided visits

08/10/2022
The recently opened International Press Centre of Galicia (CiPG) has scheduled for this Saturday an open day for the public.

Others

12/12/2022 - 08/01/2023
Casa da Conga
People crossing the Praza da Quintana at dusk (from 6PM h until late at night) on the most important dates of this Christmas will receive a very special greeting: illustrations created specifically for projection on the Casa da Conga.

Congresses and meetings

21/10/2022 - 22/10/2022
Hostal dos Reis Católicos
International meeting for the exchange of knowledge in the management of the mobility of pilgrimage and tourism flows in various cities around the world linked to the pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela and the historical and cultural memory of St. James.

Meetings

03/11/2022 - 06/11/2022
The Encounter of Compostela Illustrated Travel Journals, was created in 2016 by El Patito Editorial and the direction of Miguelanxo Prado, as a winter event in the city of Santiago, open to artists from all over the world. It takes place during the second weekend of November, and its purpose is...

Exhibitions

03/06/2022 - 10/09/2022
Centro Cultural Afundación
CIDADES NO TEMPO is an exhibition project that aims to highlight the urban identity of Galicia. This proposal, one of the most complex and ambitious organised in our community in recent years, is made up of seven different exhibitions, one for each of the main Galician cities. And in each...
08/07/2022 - 30/10/2022
Museo de las Peregrinaciones y de Santiago
This year Xacobeo 2022, the Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago is honoured to present a revealing exhibition: Chacona. The Song of Santiago. An exhibition that presents the relationship of this musical form with the city of Compostela, the cathedral and the Camino. The discovery shown for...
03/08/2022 - 30/09/2022
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
Molezún (1920-2001) is one of the pioneering artists of abstraction in Galicia. The exhibition includes more than 45 originals by the great artist from A Coruña, which reveal his great versatility and linguistic and formal richness, as well as the unpublished Ibiza Series, highly...
27/09/2022 - 10/11/2022
Colexio de Fonseca
The High Cloister of the Colegio de Fonseca hosts from Tuesday 27 September the exhibition 'Microbiology. Exploring beyond the visible', an exhibition sponsored by the Spanish Society of Microbiology (SEM) and the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN) that comes to Compostela thanks to...
18/10/2022 - 18/02/2023
Centro Cultural Afundación
Imagination as a refuge, inspiration and fundamental source of the creative process, is the premise from which IMAXINARIA, IV edition of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Illustration, brings to the Afundación headquarters in Santiago de Compostela, one more year, what is...
20/10/2022 - 10/11/2022
Centro Abanca Obra Social
The Vivanco Foundation is exhibiting at the Abanca Centre 80 engravings by 53 great artists such as Dürer, Chagall, Miró, Picasso, Warhol, Paula Rego and Chillida: Six centuries of art around wine.
20/10/2022 - 28/01/2023
Colexio de Fonseca
26/10/2022 - 29/01/2023
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The exhibition Pánico no museo (Panic at the museum) by the artist María Meijide is part of the Artist in Residence programme, which this year celebrates its sixth edition. In this project, the artists have a space at the Foundation's headquarters to work and create....
11/11/2022 - 08/01/2023
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
The LUISA PITA Art Gallery presents on 11 November at 8 p.m. the last exhibition of 2022 with the work of the artist Francesca Poza (Mataró 1965), who joins the Gallery's artists with a project that brings together a total of thirteen works under the title "El papel como materia y el...
15/11/2022 - 25/11/2022
Colexio de Fonseca
The year 2022 marks the centenary of the birth of Carlos López García-Picos (1922-2009), a composer from Betanzos who emigrated to Buenos Aires and studied in Paris.
22/11/2022 - 18/02/2023
Centro Abanca Obra Social
Based on a review of the holdings of the Luciano Méndez Sánchez Collection of Contemporary Cuban Art, the exhibition Sueño de Navegante (Navigator's Dream) invites us to take a journey through the contemporary Cuban art of the last fifty years, exploring different ...

Annual

20/12/2015 - 28/12/2015
Teatro Principal
A festival is held every year around Christmastime, featuring a lyrical programme of classical Spanish zarzuelas, musicals and operetas by renowned interpreters. Organiser: Concello de Santiago / Asoc. Galega da Lírica Teresa Berganza.    
18/02/2019 - 24/03/2019
Facultad de Geografía e Historia
The Concert Cycle Novos Talentos Musicais is aimed at Galician chamber musicians living in Galicia or students of Galician Music Centres up to 32 years of age. It is an initiative promoted by the Compostela Sound Association and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).
18/09/2019 - 23/09/2019
Teatro Principal
  Outstanding lied singers from all over the world give recitals along with the pianist and festival organiser Roger Vignoles. Each year deals with a central theme, giving rise to specialised conferences on the genre. Organizer: Concello de Santiago / Asociación de Amigos de...

Religious

31/03/2023 - 16/04/2023
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...

Theatre

01/05/2023 - 07/05/2023
In the Mostra de Teatro Universitario de Galicia, works from the three Galician universities will be presented at the Teatro Principal and at the Roberto Vidal Bolaño theater. +Info
02/09/2023 - 23/09/2023
Teatro Principal
Amateur theatre The Agustín Magán Festival was born in 2001 with the purpose of promoting the best theatrical productions of the amateur federated companies. The works that participate each year, in total 6, are selected by a jury and represent the most interesting proposals of...

Annual

30/09/2023 - 08/10/2023
During its official week, the competition screens and awards prizes to short films in the following categories: 'Radar', 'Explora', 'Penínsulas' and 'Planeta GZ'. The programme also features master classes, concerts and gatherings, as well street screenings during summer.
02/11/2023 - 05/11/2023
The Encounter of Compostela Illustrated Travel Journals, was created in 2016 by El Patito Editorial and the direction of Miguelanxo Prado, as a winter event in the city of Santiago, open to artists from all over the world. It takes place during the second weekend of November, and its purpose is...

Cinema

06/11/2023 - 22/11/2023
Teatro Principal
Festival held since 1988 throughout the entire month of November. Aimed exclusively at cinema buffs, it reviews the season’s best non-commercial cinema. Not to be missed in order to savour the city’s cultural atmosphere. +Info 

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