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Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is the capital city of in northwest Spain. It's named for Saint James, one of the twelve Apostles of Christ, and in legend is his burial site.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Santiago de Compostela railway station and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.

Railway station
Photo: Jtcurses, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santiago de Compostela-Daniel Castelao is the railway station of the Galician capital , Spain. In 2024, it registered a traffic of 4.3 million passengers, being the busiest railway station in Galicia.

Museum
Photo: Josugoni, Public domain.
The , CGAC is an arts centre based in that aims to promote culture in through exhibition, enjoyment and knowledge of the trends and currents of contemporary artistic creation.

Square
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The Praza do Obradoiro is main square of the old town, although not placed at the real centre. It lies to the West of the main façade of the Santiago de Compostela cathedral, and thus the Pórtico da Gloria must be crossed to get into the building from the square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include O Milladoiro and Monte do Gozo.

Town
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is a Spanish town located in the parish of Viduido, in the municipality of , in the province of , . It currently has 13,352 inhabitants. is situated 4½ km southwest of Santiago de Compostela.

Locality
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is a hill in , , . It is known for being the place where Christian pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago can get their first views of the three spires of their destination, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. is situated 4 km east of Santiago de Compostela.

Santiago de Compostela

Latitude
42.8802° or 42° 52′ 49″ north
Longitude
-8.5474° or 8° 32′ 51″ west
Population
95,700
Elevation
237 metres (778 feet)
Open location code
8CJHVFJ3+33
Geo­Names ID
6357346
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Santiago de Compostela” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Albanian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Amharic: “ሳንቲያጎ ዴ ኮምፖስቴላ”
  • Arabic: “شنت ياقُب”
  • Aragonese: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Armenian: “Սանտյագո դե Կոմպոստելա”
  • Asturian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Aymara: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Azerbaijani: “Santiaqo de Kompostela”
  • Bambara: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Basque: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Bavarian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Belarusian: “Сант’яга-дэ-Кампастэла”
  • Bengali: “সান্তিয়াগো দে কম্পোস্তেলা”
  • Bislama: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Bosnian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Breton: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Bulgarian: “Сантяго де Компостела”
  • Burmese: “ဆန်တီယာဂို ဒီ ကွန်ပိုစတယ်လာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Santiago de Compostel·la”
  • Cebuano: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Central Bikol: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Chamorro: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Cheyenne: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Chinese: “圣地亚哥－德孔波斯特拉”
  • Cornish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Croatian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Czech: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Danish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Dutch: “Santiago de Compostella”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتياجو دى كومبوستيلا”
  • Esperanto: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Estonian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Extremaduran: “Santiagu de Compostela”
  • Faroese: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Finnish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • French: “Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle”
  • Friulian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Galician: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Georgian: “სანტიაგო-დე-კომპოსტელა”
  • German: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Greek: “Σαντιάγο δε Κομποστέλα”
  • Guarani: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટિયાગો દે કોમ્પોસ્ટેલા”
  • Haitian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Hebrew: “סנטיאגו דה קומפוסטלה”
  • Hindi: “सांतिआगो दे कोम्पोस्तेला”
  • Hungarian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Icelandic: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Ido: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Indonesian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Interlingua: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Interlingue: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Irish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Italian: “Santiago di Compostela”
  • Japanese: “サンティアゴ・デ・コンポステーラ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಂಟಿಯಾಗೊ ಡೆ ಕಾಂಪೊಸ್ಟೆಲಾ”
  • Kashubian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Kinaray-A: “Santiyago sa Kumpostela”
  • Korean: “산티아고데콤포스텔라”
  • Kotava: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Ladin: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Ladino: “Santiago de Kompostela”
  • Latin: “Compostella”
  • Latvian: “Santjago de Kompostela”
  • Ligurian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Limburgan: “Santiago de Compostella”
  • Lithuanian: “Santjago de Kompostela”
  • Lombard: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Macedonian: “Сантјаго де Компостела”
  • Malagasy: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Malay: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Maltese: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Maori: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Marathi: “सांतियागो दे कोंपोस्तेला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Moksha: “Сантьяго-дэ-Компостэла”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Compostèla”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Ossetian: “Сантьяго-де-Компостелæ”
  • Pampanga: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਤੀਆਗੋ ਦੇ ਕੋਮਪੋਸਤੇਲਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Persian: “سانتیاگو د کمپوستلا”
  • Polish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Portuguese: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Quechua: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Romanian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Russian: “Сантьяго-де-Компостела”
  • Sardinian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Scots: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Serbian: “Сантијаго де Компостела”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Silesian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Sinhala: “සන්තියාගෝ ඩි කොම්පොස්ටෙලා”
  • Slovak: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Slovenian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانتیاقو د کمپوستلا”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Sundanese: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Swahili: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Swedish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Swiss German: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Tagalog: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Tamil: “சாந்தியாகோ தே கோம்போசுதேலா”
  • Tatar: “Сантьяго-де-Компостела”
  • Telugu: “శాంటియాగో దే కాంపోస్ట్లే”
  • Thai: “ซานเตียโกเดกอมโปสเตลา”
  • Turkish: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Twi: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Ukrainian: “Сантьяго-де-Компостела”
  • Urdu: “سانتیاگو دے کومپوستیلا”
  • Uzbek: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Venetian: “Santiago de Conpostèła”
  • Vietnamese: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Vlax Romani: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Volapük: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Walloon: “Sint-Djåke-el-Galice”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Welsh: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Western Armenian: “Սանթիակօ տէ Քոմփոսթելա”
  • Western Frisian: “Santiago de Compostela”
  • Western Panjabi: “سانتیاگو دے کومپوستیلا”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣地亚戈朝圣城”
  • Yiddish: “סאַנטיאַגא דע קאמאפאסטעלאַ”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖地亞哥德孔波斯特拉”
  • Zhuang: “Santiago de Compostela”

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Localities in the Area

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