Gala Ari(t)mar 2025
The great celebration of Galician and Portuguese music and poetry returns to Santiago de Compostela on Thursday, October 30. The event will take place at 8:30 pm with free admission until full capacity is reached.
The gala, hosted by Tati Moyano and Xurxo Souto, will feature the bands awarded as the best musical acts of the past year in Galicia and Portugal: Mondra and Diogo Piçarra; the winners of the 2024 poetry awards: Elba Pedrosa and Cátia Cardoso; and a delegation from the Municipality of Braga, recipient of the Special Jury Prize for the Galician-Lusophone Friendship Embassy.
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Gala Ari(t)mar 2025
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Festivals
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.
A tour of artistic illumination through Paseo da Ferradura in Alameda Park.
At sunset, the Quintana becomes a canvas of stars, a Campus Stellae.
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...
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The “Xenerais da Ulla” is the most outstanding feature of the Ulla region’s traditional Carnival. It has been held in the surroundings of Santiago since the first half of the 19th century: the “Xenerais” (generals) ride on horseback, dressed in colourful military garments similar to those of that time, but they also include purely carnivalesque adornments, which the horses also wear.
