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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

- 18 February, 2026

Gastronomy

05/02/2026 - 01/03/2026
San Francisco Hotel Monumento ****
IX COCIDO DEL CONVENTO DAYS at San Francisco Hotel Monumento (Santiago de Compostela). From February 5 to March 1, Thursday to Sunday for lunch service, and on Carnival Tuesday.

Fiestas

17/01/2026 - 22/02/2026
Santiago de Compostela
Very close to Santiago: Boqueixón, A Estrada, Silleda, Touro, Vedra, Vila de Cruces
ESTIMATED DATES, CALCULATED BASED ON THE PREVIOUS EDITION. 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”...
11/02/2026 - 18/02/2026
Entroido 2026, one of Santiago’s most popular annual celebrations, will take place from 11 to 18 February with a programme full of humour, music and tradition. As every year, the Meco will be the central figure of the festivities, presiding over the celebrations and setting the irreverent...

Exhibitions

27/05/2025 - 31/05/2026
Fundación Eugenio Granell
A project curated by Eduardo Valiña to commemorate the museum's thirtieth anniversary.
27/05/2025 - 31/05/2026
Museo-Fundación Eugenio Granell
The exhibition Boutique Amparo, curated by Eduardo Valiña is part of the exhibitions commemorating the museum's thirtieth anniversary.      
10/10/2025 - 01/03/2026
Auditorio de Galicia
Exhibition of the finalist works in the fourteenth edition of this Galician contemporary creation competition, a space for showcasing the work of artists and for meeting with a broad and diverse audience that also includes professionals from the field.  
16/10/2025 - 28/02/2026
Colexio de Fonseca
The Colexio de Fonseca will host the exhibition Speculative Fictions from October 16, a collective show exploring how contemporary artists use science fiction, dreams, and oracles as tools to construct alternative visions of the world and the future. 
28/10/2025 - 05/04/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
It is the final major exhibition project of the year at the Cidade da Cultura. A show that delves, from a contemporary perspective, into the complex aesthetic world of the artist who managed to synthesise the new European sculptural movements with Galician roots.
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...
12/12/2025 - 08/03/2026
Casa do Cabido
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...
28/12/2025 - 31/05/2026
Museo do Pobo Galego
The Museum of the Galician People hosts the temporary exhibition of the sculptures by Master Mateo —Abraham/Jeremías and Isaac/Ezequiel— recovered by the City Council of Santiago after being looted during the Franco regime. The exhibition, located in the South Wing of the...
Free
16/01/2026 - 28/02/2026
Galería Dupla
DUPLA gallery presents the exhibition Absurdo, by Iván Prieto and ZËsar Bahamonte. The show brings together sculpture, painting and mural practices to explore the concept of the absurd, drawing inspiration from Albert Camus’ philosophy and the human search for meaning. 
16/01/2026 - 13/03/2026
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
The LUISA PITA gallery presents the group exhibition Convivencias, a show that brings together the work of Martina Rodríguez Morán, Alejandra Atarés, Laura Nieto and Ana Margarita Ramírez. Four artists with well-established careers whose pictorial...
16/01/2026 - 24/04/2026
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
The DIDAC Foundation presents The Barro Archive, an exhibition based on the archive of Galician designer Pepe Barro, deposited in the Foundation since 2024. The exhibition offers insight into his career from the 1970s to today, highlighting editorial design, visual identity projects, and his...
22/01/2026 - 08/03/2026
Trinta
In this exhibition, Eduardo Gruber explores silence, listening and imagination as essential elements of the creative process. Through graphite, charcoal and watercolours, the artist creates a visual narrative in which black and white, anxiety and calm, reason and dream coexist. Drawing...
29/01/2026 - 26/04/2026
Museo do Pobo Galego
An exhibition inviting visitors to discover the symbolic, artistic, and social value of masks through pieces from over 40 countries collected by traveler and collector Nacho Rovira, combined with Galician masks, some of which belong to the Museo do Pobo Galego. The exhibition will remain open...
03/02/2026 - 22/02/2026
Área Central
Área Central hosts a photographic exhibition dedicated to the Xenerais da Ulla, one of the most distinctive celebrations of the Galician Carnival, declared a Site of Cultural Interest and a Galicia Festival of Tourist Interest. The exhibition features 8...
05/02/2026 - 31/03/2026
Fundación Ría
On Thursday, 5 February 2026, Casa RIA opens the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of David Chipperfield Design. Under the title “Design for Living”, the exhibition transforms the building into a space for reflecting on design as an act of care,...
05/02/2026 - 18/03/2026
Igrexa da Compañía (Universidade)
Water, Mud and Capital places us before the open wound running through the earth’s rivers and riverbeds. Àlvar Calvet examines how the system has transformed the primordial element of life into a speculative commodity. The exhibition arrives in Galicia at a critical moment,...
06/02/2026 - 03/05/2026
11:00 | CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
The CGAC, the first museum designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, has addressed architecture from multiple perspectives throughout its programme of activities and exhibitions, often through the gaze of the artists who have collaborated with the centre since its opening in 1993. It is therefore...
12/02/2026 - 05/04/2026
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The Fundación Eugenio Granell opens the exhibition by artist Sergio Marey, curated by Eduardo Valiña, which will be on view until April 5. Titled Arrieire no camiño, Marey presents a critical approach to tradition, understood not as fixed heritage but as...
16/02/2026 - 04/03/2026
Colexio de Fonseca
The exhibition “Virando o rosa”, by photographer Diana Fajardo Rama, opens on February 16 at 12:00 in the Upper Cloister of the Colegio de Fonseca, as part of the 8M celebration. The project reflects on the care of women diagnosed with cancer from a gender perspective, combining a...

Annual

18/09/2025 - 04/06/2026
Auditorio de Galicia
The Real Filharmonía de Galicia presents its 2025–2026 season, titled Historias. Coinciding with the celebration of its 30th anniversary, the programme highlights Galician talent, contemporary creation, and the projection of the orchestra towards the future.
21/10/2025 - 31/05/2026
The objectives of Contemporáneas, a new programme of the City Council of Santiago with the support of the Diputación de A Coruña, are to raise awareness of avant-garde music of the 20th and 21st centuries, to encourage the creation of new compositions and to establish a...
29/01/2026 - 06/06/2026
The new performing arts season of Compostela Cultura (January–June 2026) features 23 shows and 33 performances of theatre and dance, with a programme that explores memory, identity and emerging contemporary languages. The season is structured around three thematic focuses —Castelao...