--- title: "Santiago de Compostela – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Santiago de Compostela from Ranón, Bilbao and Madrid: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Santiago de Compostela…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/santiago-de-compostela" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/santiago-de-compostela.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Santiago_Cathedral_2021_-_west_panorama.jpg/3840px-Santiago_Cathedral_2021_-_west_panorama.jpg" --- ![Santiago de Compostela](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Santiago_Cathedral_2021_-_west_panorama.jpg/3840px-Santiago_Cathedral_2021_-_west_panorama.jpg) # Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, alternatively abbreviated to Santiago or Compostela, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. [Plan a trip to Santiago de Compostela](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Santiago%20de%20Compostela) [From Ranón](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ran%C3%B3n&to=Santiago+de+Compostela) ## Every way there - Ranón → Santiago de Compostela 215 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · €28–39 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ranon-to-santiago-de-compostela) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ran%C3%B3n&to=Santiago+de+Compostela) - Bilbao → Santiago de Compostela 458 km · quickest by air, 3h 49m · €100–150 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bilbao-to-santiago-de-compostela) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bilbao&to=Santiago+de+Compostela) - Madrid → Santiago de Compostela 487 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · €120–180 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/madrid-to-santiago-de-compostela) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Madrid&to=Santiago+de+Compostela) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. The field note What is in and around Santiago de Compostela, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Santiago de Compostela](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/santiago-de-compostela) What Santiago de Compostela has - Y Scheduled flights Santiago de Compostela (SCQ), 11 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 126 timetable feeds for this country, 24 with real-time - N Ferries no crossing within 25 km - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share no share feed known - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. 42.878°, -8.544° It is located in the province of A Coruña, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. In 1985, the city's Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Get in ## Getting to Santiago de Compostela There are several airports around, from which you can reach the city quite easily. 1. Santiago Rosalía de Castro Airport This has seasonal flights from across west Europe, the UK and Ireland by budget carriers such as Ryanair. 2. Santiago Train Station is a kilometre south The station is small and functional with ticket desks, a café and waiting room. 3. Bus Station See ## Worth seeing 1. Catedral de Santiago de Compostela Massive cathedral built from 1075 but only consecrated in 1211. 2. Monasterio de San Martiño Pinario Praza da Inmaculada 5 (50 m north of cathedral),. 3. Museum of the Cathedral of Santiago 4. Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago Do ## Things to do Pilgrim Reception Office (Centro Internacional de Acollida ó Peregrino), 33 Rúa das Carretas (100 yards north of cathedral plaza),. Daily 10:00-18:00. Get your pilgrim's certificate for completing El Camino de Santiago. Pilgrim House, Rua Nova 19 (100 m south of Plaza de Quintana),. Apr-Oct Mon Tue Thu-Sat 11:00-20:00. Offers support and resources to pilgrims who have just finished the Camino. Eat ## Where to eat The city goes strong on seafood, especially pulpo, octopus. Local cheese and cakes are worth seeking out. Tapas are served everywhere. "Pimientos de padrón" are part spicy, part not, so practise saying "Os pementos de Padrón, uns pican e outros non". The main eating strip is along the two alleys south of the cathedral, Rúa da Raíña and Rúa do Franco. 1. Restaurante Tarará Rúa das Carretas 22 basement,. 2. Mamá Peixe Taberna Grand little place for seafood, better book. 3. Restaurante Petiscos Especially good value is the lunchtime menu del día, with vegan and GF choices. 4. Taberna O Gato Negro Slick unpretentious place for trad Spanish cuisine. 5. A Noiesa Mesón 42 at Franco 42 has tapas with big portions. How locals move ## Getting around Santiago de Compostela the local way - Get in One heroic bus traverses the country north-south, from A Coruña via Santiago to Pontevedra, Vigo, Ourense, Zamora, Salamanca, Bejar, Plasencia, Caceres, Merida, Zafra, Seville, Jerez, Cadiz, Tarifa and Algeciras, for ferries to Morocco. From [Wikivoyage: Santiago de Compostela](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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