The festival will take place around the seven Galician roads leading to Santiago: the North, Primitive, French, English, Fisterra, Portuguese and Silver Routes. 20 localities along these roads will play host to a total of 40 concerts, the most important of which will take place in Santiago de Compostela. From 5 to 28 July

The festival opens in Santiago on 5 July with Fabio Biondi’s Europa Galante performing the programme "The Nations of Europe". On 6 July the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, conducted by Giovanni Antonini, will present "The Classical Symphony from Haydn to Beethoven".

On 7 July Christina Pluhar’s ensemble L´Arpeggiata will perform a concert titled "The Impossible: Tarantellas, Ciaconnas and Fandangos from the Old and New Worlds". On 8 July Antonio Florio’s Capella de’ Turchini will perform Mozart’s oratorio La Betulia liberata. On 11 July López Banzo’s Al Ayre Español will present "The Spanish Cantata in Latin America" with the countertenor Carlos Mena. Andrea Marcon’s Venice Baroque Orchestra will give two programmes: a concert version of the pastiche Andromeda liberata on 14 July, and "A Night in Venice" on 15 July. Les Musciens du Louvre with Marc Minkovski will perform the Haydn Symphonies Nos. 94, 99 and 101 on 16 July.

On 18 July Jean Claude Spinosi’s Ensemble Matheus and the countertenor Bejun Metha will give a recital of Vivaldi opera arias. On 20 July Rinaldo Alessandrini’s Concerto Italiano perform a selection of Monteverdi madrigals under the title "La notte e il giorno, la guerra e l’amore". Celine Frisch will perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations on 22 July and Manuel Vilas the program "Light and North: Spanish Music for the Double-Strung Harp" on 25 July.

Juan Bautista Otero’s Royal Chamber-Opera Company will perform a semi-staged production of Ifigenia en Aulide by Martín y Soler on 27 July. And to end the Santiago Festival on 28 July, Antoni Ros Marbá conducts the Real Filarmonía de Galicia in a Haydn and Mozart programme.