I LOVE COMPOSTELA brings you the latest news about Santiago de Compostela and offers you ideas for leisure activities in the city in every season of the year.
A new month is here, and with it comes a fresh round of cultural events to liven up your fall. We’ve put together the full list so you’ll know exactly what to do in Santiago de Compostela this October—whether you live here or are just visiting.
September is a month of new beginnings. The return to school, the start of classes and the end of summer make it a busy period. But that does not mean that, in Santiago,...
What if those afternoons of “goose to goose and shoot because it’s my turn” had been, without knowing it, a small Camino de Santiago in your own home? For years a hypothesis as suggestive as popular has been circulating: the game of the goose would be a symbolic map of the Jacobean route, designed by the Templars to codify stages, aids and dangers of this route. What’s true? Here we review the documented history of the game and the keys to this particular theory.
The Lanzadeira Festival returns this Friday, August 22, 2025 with its fourth edition, an event designed to show the public of Santiago the potential of the new generations of local artists linked to the Centro Xove da Almáciga. The proposal, with free admission, will start at 7:30 pm.
On September 6, the Cidade da Cultura will once again become a great park of creativity and entertainment with the arrival of Ciudad Imaginaria, one of the most anticipated events of the Galician summer.
On May 17, 2025, Galicia will celebrate the Día das Letras Galegas with a special tribute to popular oral poetry and to the women who, over generations, have been its main guardians and transmitters: the cantareiras.
There are many pilgrims who decide to do the Camino de Santiago with their dogs to strengthen the bond between owner and pet, enjoy nature and live the spirituality of the...
April is here, a perfect month to enjoy the spring and the great cultural offer of Compostela. As always, we have prepared a list of events for you to know what to do this April in Santiago.
The bell ringer’s trade has its origins in the Middle Ages, when in the great cathedrals and churches of Europe, bells played a fundamental role in religious and social life.
From Thursday, February 13 to Sunday, March 2, will take place in Santiago de Compostela the XVI edition of Santiago(é)Tapas, a gastronomic event promoted and organized by Turismo de Santiago and with the support of the Diputación de A Coruña.
The month of love has arrived and, with it, so do all these plans to the Galician capital. We tell you what to do this February in Santiago de Compostela.
The year 2025 has just begun and what better way to welcome it than with a string of cultural plans? As every month, we bring you a detailed list so you know what to do this January in Santiago de Compostela.
The traditional Mercado da Estrela will once again turn Santiago de Compostela into a meeting point for the celebration of Galician talent, crafts and local commerce. It will take place this weekend, from December 13 to 15.
This 2024 is about to come to an end. To celebrate it, we bring you a list of plans and other activities so you know what to do in Santiago de Compostela during the month of December.
When you think of Christmas, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the figure of Santa Claus or the Three Wise Men, fantastic characters that bring joy and illusion to the little ones. But many territories have their own icons, as is the case of the Apalpador.
