Quique González presents his new album, "Sur en el valle" (Cultura Rock / Varsovia Récords, 2021), a title inspired by the wind that is famous throughout the Cantabrian coast, the bearer of unusual events and behaviour and to which all kinds of legends are associated. There is...
Santiago de Compostela Municipal Music Band
Guest Conductor: Javier Alonso (3rd Prize in the 1st BMSC Conducting Competition)
SONARTE Season 22/23: March, the Painting
De Lugares e Órganos returns at Easter with the intention of continuing to discover and revisit the spaces of the city and its musical memory in a programme featuring the organs of Compostela.
Concert by the Santiago Municipal Music Band, in which Nuria Lorenzo and Gabriel Alonso give voice to Jesus and Mary Magdalene. A different way of getting to know the passion of Christ, according to Saint Mark.
Concert framed in the programme De Lugares e Órganos 2023 with the intention of continuing to discover and revisit the spaces of the city and its musical memory in a programme featuring the organs of Compostela.
Concert framed in the programme De Lugares e Órganos 2023 with the intention of continuing to discover and revisit the spaces of the city and its musical memory in a programme featuring the organs of Compostela.
12:30 | Iglesia de la Compañía o de la Universidad
Concert framed in the programme De Lugares e Órganos 2023 with the intention of continuing to discover and revisit the spaces of the city and its musical memory in a programme featuring the organs of Compostela.
Concert framed in the programme De Lugares e Órganos 2023 with the intention of continuing to discover and revisit the spaces of the city and its musical memory in a programme featuring the organs of Compostela.
The brilliant flautist Silvia Careddu will perform the Concierto da Malverrosa by Antón García Abril with the pianist Juan Carlos Fernández Nieto under the baton of maestro Paul Daniel.
Paul Daniel, conductor Silvia Careddu, flute Juan Carlos...
Luis Eduardo Fernández Cañería or "Luis Fercán", as he is known, is one of the most personal and recognisable voices on the current music scene. After playing in several bands in his native Galicia, in 2016 he began his solo career as one of the most renowned...
Real Filharmonía de Galicia
One of the emerging conductors on the music scene, Nil Venditti, will offer a programme with a strong Italian accent with works by Louise Farrenc, Puccini and the "Italian" Felix Mendelssohn Symphony.
The meeting of Ivan Vilela, a virtuoso of the ten-string viola -viola caipira or even Brazilian viola- and one of the most influential artists of Brazilian instrumental music, with Pablo Castaño, a benchmark name of the new Galician jazz, is revealed in Mat[R]iz (aCentral Folque, 2022),...
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia
The clarinet soloist of the Berlin Philharmonic, Andreas Ottensamer, will play and conduct the orchestra for the first time in his own arrangements of Mendelssohn Lobgesang and Cancións sen palabras, together with Tchaikovsky's first symphony.
The Uruguayan band Cuarteto De Nos returns to Spain to celebrate live the songs from their latest album LÁMINA ONCE, as well as giving a classic tour of the hits from their latest albums on this TOUR EUROPA 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.
Shakespeare in Rome was created as an opportunity to unite three moments in history: the present, the Elizabethan period and Classical Rome through war, violence and the struggle for power that guide the destiny of the characters.
Producciones Teatrales Contemporáneas brings to the Auditorium this play starring Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Ruiz, Carlos Blanco, Nuria Herrero and Gerardo Otero.
The ’romería’ of San Lázaro, a neighbourhood situated at the entrance of the city, on the Way of St. James, is both religious and gastronomic. The patron saint is honoured with a mass and a procession, in addition to an ancient tradition in which pig’s ...
The exhibition, which focuses on the diachronic relationship between the turn of the century and the first and second avant-gardes, brings together fundamental pieces of art from the last 200 years.
Behind the Mirror. Galicia in the work of foreign authors of the 20th century offers a vision of Galicia through the eyes of 50 renowned names in the arts, science and thought of the last century and a half, men and women of importance in the history of universal culture who delved into the...
After 50 years of music, the group FUXAN OS VENTOS presents in Compostela, and with the help of Afundación, an exhibition with which to go through these five decades of history of one of the great groups of Galician culture.
The exhibition consists of a selection of works in which Amparo Segarra, through her collages, offers a reflection on the human body as the central axis of part of her compositions.
Curated by Eduardo Valiña
These are the services and acts that take place during the Easter Triduum, the liturgical commemoration of the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord.
The International Ethnographic Film Festival of the Museo do Pobo Galego aims to present recent audiovisual works in the field of ethnography and visual anthropology.
The screenings take place in the Museo do Pobo Galego, the Salón Teatro and the Teatro...
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...
Annual fair that is held in the city’s most emblematic park, where you can find bargains in a great variety of publications, including books about Santiago and Galicia.
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.
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Atlántica, Festival Internacional de Narración Oral, was born in 2013 with headquarters in Santiago de Compostela with a clear vocation of being an encounter of voices and stories with an atlanticist profile and now it is sailing all over Galicia.
Agadic organizes this Galician performing arts market festival. Through a selection of recently produced shows and a programme of parallel activities, this initiative takes the pulse of the current situation of the sector in Galicia. At the same time, it provides its professionals with a...
During the month of August, dance, circus, theatre, poetry, music, heritage, visual arts and much more in the streets of Compostela. All the programme at compostelacultura.gal
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...
The WOS Festival is an annual indoor event that takes place in September in different spaces of high heritage value in Santiago de Compostela. The festival presents a broad multidisciplinary programme with a focus on electronic and avant-garde music, visual arts, film, installations, ...
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.
Puppeteers from several countries present their singular productions. Children’s shows, outdoor performances and evening shows. And also round tables, exhibitions and workshops… an entire range of activities related to puppets.
NOTE: Estimated dates for 2023
The Araguaney Foundation organizes this Arab cinema exhibition in Santiago de Compostela. Its main objective is to present the current situation of the Arab audiovisual industry and to offer a starting point for the discovery of this rich world that, even today,...
Compostela is the perfect city for going out for a drink and tapas, especially with the “Santiago(é)Tapas” Competition. Participants follow several routes of bars and restaurants, trying traditional and creative creations at an attractive price, to choose and vote for their...
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...
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.
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Very close to Santiago:
Boqueixón, A Estrada, Silleda, Touro, Vedra, Vila de Cruces
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...
Easter is also a good time to visit some of the small treasures hidden in the city, which during these dates are shown to the visitor taking on a special dimension and meaning; because Santiago is a place of reflection, passion, worship... but above all, a real jewel for lovers of sacred...
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