Portada | Official Tourism Website of Santiago de Compostela and its Surroundings

Shopping

It is important to take into account a series of particularities when it comes to shopping. For example, there are sales during two main times of...

Habits and customs

There are two co-official languages in Galicia , Galician and Spanish. The names of streets and squares are in Galician, as are road signs. There...

Habits and customs

The legal currency is the euro. Traveller's checks, dollars, pounds sterling and other currencies can be exchanged in all the banks or euros can...

Routes on foot

Casa del Deán is followed, in Rúa do Vilar, by other Renaissance, baroque and neoclassical mansions, which reflect the...

Habits and customs

Santiago is in the UTC+01:00 time zone, the same as Madrid, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Berlin, Warsaw or Copenhagen. As in most European countries,...

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