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Santiago's Entertainment Guide

- 8 December, 2025

Music

08/12/2025
19:30 | Teatro Compostela
Grandes del Gospel, the hallmark of gospel in Spain, after producing concerts dedicated to great figures of Black music such as Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, and B.B. King, will pay tribute at Christmas 2025 to Michael Jackson, the pop legend who forever changed the history of entertainment.

For children

28/11/2025 - 07/01/2026
All the Nativity scenes that you can visit this Christmas in Santiago de Compostela.
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.
02/12/2025 - 06/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
This Nadal no Gaiás, the Cidade da Cultura hosts Dreams of Argonauts, a magical setting filled with glowing spheres, inflatable corridors and family activities, including creative workshops, a theatre show inside the first “static” balloon, a museum escape room, a virtual...
02/12/2025 - 04/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
The special edition of Galiverso de Nadal returns to Cidade da Cultura, offering children the chance to virtually enter the Apalpador’s house and discover how this Galician Christmas figure lives.

Fairs

28/11/2025 - 05/01/2026
As every year, locals and visitors can do their Christmas shopping at the 70 stalls of decoration, gourmet food and crafts (jewellery, wood, ceramics, glass, leather, toys, textiles, original watering can, design ...) of the market in addition to the wide range of local shops in the ...

Courses and workshops

08/12/2025
17:30
Galician dance workshop for visitors. A cultural experience to enjoy local music and traditional dance, open to everyone, with or without previous experience. Led by Rebeca Tallón and Manu Seoane.  Price: €28.

Fiestas

28/11/2025 - 05/01/2026
In the heart of the Eight-Pointed Garden, the traditional Christmas tree shines bright — a 20-metre tree set within a space designed for children’s leisure. Next to this tree, the square features a light show on the façade of the Pazo de Raxoi and several attractions.

Others

28/11/2025 - 06/01/2026
18:00 | Plaza de la Quintana
At sunset, the Quintana becomes a canvas of stars, a Campus Stellae.
28/11/2025 - 06/01/2026
18:00 | Parque de la Alameda
A tour of artistic illumination through Paseo da Ferradura in Alameda Park.     

Exhibitions

11/03/2025 - 31/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Arquivo de Galicia opens the exhibition Women artists: learning the trade, which reflects the difficult path that many had to face in order to achieve social recognition of their creative capacity, as well as access to artistic education.
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.      
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...
28/08/2025 - 11/01/2026
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Phygital Land explores the construction of virtual space from the physical dimension, reflecting on how we perceive the digital and the tangible when both worlds intertwine. The term phygital—which combines physical and digital—defines a hybrid experience that runs throughout the...
12/09/2025 - 10/02/2026
Galería Defímeras
An artistic project conceived and directed by Carlos Martínez Casanova and Ana Dorrego, proposing a visual, symbolic, and critical reinterpretation of some of the most iconic works in the history of Western art.
25/09/2025 - 17/01/2026
Fundación Eugenio Granell
Exhibition by artist Iago Fernández Díaz
26/09/2025 - 08/02/2026
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea)
Twenty-six years after the CGAC’s historic series on science, technology, and art, the exhibition Perception and Uncertainty revives that essential dialogue between the humanities and scientific research. The show offers an immersive experience that encourages reflection on the limits of...
27/09/2025 - 23/12/2025
DIDAC (DARDO Instituto do Deseño e das Artes Contemporáneas)
Exhibition by Tamara Feijoo
Free
10/10/2025 - 08/02/2026
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC)
Nicasso is a work by Carlos Pazos (Barcelona, 1949), created in 2006 and acquired shortly thereafter by the CGAC to be included in the exhibition La sombra de la historia, a show focused on the personal or secret archives and collections of various artists.
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 - 01/01/2026
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo José Lorenzo
The José Lorenzo Art Gallery in Santiago hosts the exhibition Luz Atlántica, dedicated to the Vigo-born artists José Frau (1898–1976) and Ángel Sevillano (1942–1994). The show features thirty works exploring light, colour and form through two...
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. 
22/10/2025 - 08/12/2025
Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Exhibition organized by the Galician Brain Injury Association (Asociación Daño Cerebral Galicia). Subtitled “Acquired brain injury, where lost things are made right again,” it features images by Fuco Reyes of the participants in our Artistic and Creative Laboratory.
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.
30/10/2025 - 17/01/2026
Fundación Eugenio Granell
The Eugenio Granell Foundation hosts until 17 January the exhibition Montaña sobre montaña. Saltamontes by artist Lúa Gándara, curated by Eduardo Valiña. The show presents the work developed during her residency in the 9th edition of Artista en...
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...
06/11/2025 - 24/01/2026
Sede Afundación Santiago de Compostela
Stéphane Levallois, acclaimed creator of fantastic cinema, presents “Goya-Hellboy. An Iconography of Monsters”, exploring Goya’s monsters in dialogue with the superhero Hellboy. The exhibition features 72 original illustrations, key Goya prints, and works by Hellboy...
14/11/2025 - 16/12/2025
Metro Arte Contemporáneo
Exhibition by contemporary Galician artist Lomarti.
Free
14/11/2025 - 08/01/2026
Galería de Arte Luisa Pita
In Óxido, Álvarez reflects on deterioration and transformation as metaphors for contemporary society, while also pointing toward renewal and hope. Inspired by the natural processes of decay and regeneration, he offers a visual and symbolic journey that explores the expressive...
20/11/2025 - 15/01/2026
Trinta
Exhibition marking the gallery's 40th anniversary. 
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.

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...