By plain

Lavacolla Airport (phone: +34 902 404 704 ) is the airport of Santiago de Compostela. It is 10 km away (15 min by car) from Santiago de Compostela downtown.

There is a fairly good bus service : the price of one-way tickets is 3€ and the last stop in town is Rua General Pardiñas. Or you can hire a taxi (21€).

Nearby airports are A Coruña (60 km) and Vigo (90 km).

The following airlines opperate out of Lavacolla Airport :

• Aer Lingus
• Air Europa
• Air Nostrum
• Evelop
• Iberia Express
• Iberia
• Ryanair
• Swiss International Airlines
• Turkish Airlines

By train

The Train Station is in the center of the city (phone: +34 981 520 202).

Long-distance: direct daily trains link up with Madrid, with San Sebastian, Hendaye and with Barcelona. Changing train once, there is a daily service to Bilbao, Portugal and Paris, as well as nearly all of Spain’s main cities.

Regional: there are trains approximately every hour to A Coruña and Vigo, with connections to Portugal.

Trans-Cantabrian: panoramic train that goes through north and northwest Spain, the ‘Green Spain’, from San Sebastian, in the Basque Country, to Santiago de Compostela.

• RENFE

By bus

Bus Station (phone: +34 981 542 416).

Bus is also a convenient way to travel to and from Santiago de Compostela. Local routes in Galicia are served by local bus company Monbus.

• ALSA runs buses through all Spain and seveal cities in Portugal.

By car

Atlantic Motorway AP-9: links Santiago de Compostela with A Coruña, Ferrol, Pontevedra, Vigo, Tui and the portuguese border.

Northwest Dual Carriageway A-6: links Galicia with the rest of Spain via Lugo province (links up with Santiago via the AP-9 near A Coruña).

Rías Baixas Dual Carriageway A-52: links Galicia with the rest of Spain via Ourense province (links up with Santiago via the AP-9 in Vigo or by means of the N-525 road in Ourense).

AP-53 / AG-53 Motorway: links Santiago with Lalín, connecting with the AG-53 motorway to Ourense and Madrid.

Cantábrico Dual Carriageway A-8: links Galicia with France via the Cantabrian coast (links up with Santiago via the Northwest Dual Carriageway A-6).

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