With more than ten years of experience in the organisation of informative activities in different fields of culture and convinced of the opportunity and the wealth of the moment, the Ateneo de Santiago decided to promote and bring to the city and to Galicia this new musical proposal, original and unique in Galicia at this time because of its contents and its conception. The festival takes as its starting point ancient and Baroque music, music that may well symbolise a period of cultural exchange and dialogue in which the Way of Saint James was transcendental and in which we can find a mirror in which to look at ourselves and be inspired, especially in historical moments such as the present, in which understanding, tolerance, debate and solidarity through music, a universal language, are more essential than ever for coexistence.