Alameda de Santiago de Compostela is the most outstanding urban park in the city of Santiago de Compostela.

In the twelfth century, Archbishop Gelmírez ordered the construction of a church to house the relics of Santa Susana, a temple that was remodeled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and which today is surrounded by more than three hundred hundred-year-old oak trees that form a magnificent oak grove, the carballeira of Santa Susana.

In 1546, the nobleman from Compostela Rodrigo de Moscoso Osorio y Álvarez de Toledo, IV Count of Altamira, donated some agricultural land for the use and enjoyment of the people of Santiago.

In 1835, the city council of Santiago began the creation of the Campo da Estrela (Field of the Star), and the Paseo da Ferradura, which surrounds the Santa Susana carballeira.

In 1885 two large sculptural figures in the shape of a lion were transferred from the Porta Faxeira, being placed at the entrance of the Paseo da Ferradura, a semicircular path that borders the Alameda. Since then, this section has been called Paseo de los Leones.

The park has an area of 56087 m². Its topography is gently sloping. It is a garden of special botanical and monumental interest. In it there are several viewpoints over the old city, and the one that allows you to contemplate Mount Pedroso, the Residence (current Campus Sur or Campus Vida) and the southern surroundings of the city of Santiago.