The City

Santiago de Compostela is a city born of the stone in the middle of a green cloak covered by thousand rivers.

It is a place located in the limits of the World that became an unavoidable visit and destination of cult for millions of people who, throughout the years, have made a pilgrimage to visit the tomb of the apostle Santiago.

But Santiago de Compostela is also people, ancestral customs, gastronomy and festival: especially the very well known one of the APOSTOL, celebrated every July the 25th. Santiago de Compostela is a city that captivates, refuges and impregnates the visitors with an indelible footstep for ever. It is a city opened to the world for more than ten centuries with an extent cultural weight and a city that counts with one of the most ancient universities of Europe. Santiago has a constant cultural offer, adapted to all the publics, that visitors can enjoy in museums, theatres and auditoriums of the city. Santiago de Compostela goes beyond the own city or the Cathedral. In its surroundings one can find idyllic natural places that preserve the extract of the more established of the Galician people: hidden villages, millennial castles, dolmens, etc…