Getting there
Reaching Santiago
Santiago de Compostela airport
| LOCATION DISTANCE TELEPHONE WEB |
LAVACOLLA 12 KILÓMETROS 981 547 500 WWW.AENA.ES |
Lavacolla International Airport, which is Galicia's busiest with international and intercontinental connections, is 12 kilometres from the centre of Santiago. There is a regular bus service during the day, as well as a taxi service, connecting the airport with the city.
Airlines operating from Lavacolla Airport:
- Iberia. www.iberia.com
- Aireuropa. www.aireuropa.com
- Spanair. www.spanair.com
- Ryanair. www.ryanair.com
- Airnostrum. www.airnostrum.com
- Vueling. www.vueling.com
- Airberlin. www.airberlin.com
- Clickair. www.clickair.com
Santiago de Compostela train station
| LOCATION TELEPHONE WEB |
C/ HÓRREO, S/N 902 240 202 Y 981 591 859 WWW.RENFE.ES |
There are two direct trains everyday to Madrid (TALGO and Express) and one to Bilbao. There are also daily connections (changing trains once) to Barcelona, Hendaya and Paris and practically all of Spain's main destinations.
There are hourly trains to the main destinations along the Atlantic corridor (A Coruña, Vilagarcía de Arousa, Pontevedra and Vigo). There is also a direct connection to Ourense.
| LOCATION TELEPHONE |
SAN CAETANO, S/N 981 587 700 WWW.TUSSA.ORG |
The bus station is centrally located and is very near the regional government's administrative buildings (Xunta de Galicia). Different local, regional and national transport companies connect Santiago with Galicia's main towns, Portugal, Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. The high frequency of buses also makes it easy to link with other means of transport to travel throughout Europe.
Reaching Santiago by road
The entire Atlantic corridor is linked by motorway or dual carriageway.
The AP-9 Atlantic Motorway links Santiago de Compostela with Galicia's main coastal cities, from Ferrol and A Coruña in the north, passing through the Rías Baixas region, Pontevedra and Vigo, to Tui on the Portuguese border. Santiago is connected to the Castilian plateau by means of the Northwest Dual Carriageway (A-6), which links up with the AP-9 near A Coruña, or by means of the Rías Baixas Dual Carriageway (A-52), which crosses Ourense province and links up with the AP-9 at Vigo.
From Ourense, there is also the possibility of taking the N-525 road to Lalín and then the AP-53 motorway to Santiago.
From the Cantabrian corridor, Galicia is reached by means of Ribadeo, a Galician town bordering Asturias, via the N-634, a first-rate road that links up with the Northwest Dual Carriageway (A-6).
