Hotel Real

Santiago de Compostela


The 13-room Real has a cared-for feel with pretty and original furnishings and bedding. The rooms are mostly on the small side, but a couple have little balconies, and there's a bright breakfast room and a cute stone-paved rear courtyard.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Santiago de Compostela attractions

1. Casa do Deán

0.11 MILES

The Fundación Catedral office here gives out free tickets for unguided visits to the cathedral's Pórtico de la Gloria between 7pm and 8pm Monday to…

2. Fundación Eugenio Granell

0.12 MILES

Includes much of Galician surrealist artist Granell's own work, as well as his collections of surrealist and ethnic art.

3. Casa do Cabido

0.12 MILES

Along the lower side of the Praza das Praterías, the baroque Casa do Cabildo is no more than a 3m-deep facade erected in the 1750s at the behest of the…

4. Museo das Peregrinacións e de Santiago

0.13 MILES

The brightly displayed Museum of Pilgrimages and Santiago gives fascinating insights into the phenomenon of Santiago (man, city and pilgrimage) down the…

5. Praza de Fonseca

0.13 MILES

South of the cathedral, stop in cafe-lined Praza de Fonseca to look into the Colexio de Fonseca with its beautiful Renaissance courtyard; this was the…

6. Praza das Praterías

0.13 MILES

'Silversmiths' Square' is centred on an elegant 1825 fountain, the Fuente de los Caballos, a popular photo op, with the cath­edral's Romanesque south…

7. Fuente de los Caballos

0.13 MILES

The plaza on the cathedral's south side focuses on Fuente de los Caballos fountain (1825), a popular photo op, with four elegant horses surmounted by a…

8. Colexio de Fonseca

0.14 MILES

Just south of the cathedral, the Colexio de Fonseca, with a beautiful Renaissance courtyard and two exhibition galleries, was the original seat of…