La galería recibió cuatrocientas visitas durante el fin de semana, sobre todo en la quinta sala.

Recibió is the preterite form of recibir, meaning received. It is used here because the sentence talks about a completed event in a finished time period: the gallery got that number of visits during the weekend.

So:

• recibió = it received
• subject = la galería

In this kind of context, Spanish often uses recibir visitas for museums, galleries, websites, events, etc. English might sometimes say had 400 visits, but Spanish commonly says received 400 visits.

Because visitas is a feminine plural noun, and the hundreds from 200 onward must agree in gender with the noun they describe.

So:

• cuatrocientos visitantes = 400 visitors
• cuatrocientas visitas = 400 visits

Here, visitas is feminine, so the correct form is cuatrocientas.

Here it means visits, not necessarily individual visitors.

That matters because:

• visitas = visits / entries / attendances
• visitantes = visitors

So cuatrocientas visitas could mean that the gallery recorded 400 entries or attendances, but it does not automatically mean 400 different people.

Because recibir visitas is a very natural Spanish expression for places or institutions.

It is similar to saying:

• El museo recibió miles de visitantes.
• La exposición recibió mucha atención.

Spanish could sometimes use other verbs depending on context, but recibir sounds very idiomatic here. It gives the idea that the gallery attracted or got that number of visits.

Durante means during, so durante el fin de semana means during the weekend.

It emphasizes that the 400 visits happened throughout that time period.

A few useful points:

• durante = during
• el fin de semana = the weekend

In English, you might also say over the weekend. In Spanish, durante el fin de semana is a clear and natural way to express that.

Usually, no—not in standard Peninsular Spanish for this meaning.

For a time span like the weekend, Spanish normally prefers:

• durante el fin de semana
• sometimes simply el fin de semana

For example:

• La galería recibió cuatrocientas visitas el fin de semana.
• La galería recibió cuatrocientas visitas durante el fin de semana.

En el fin de semana sounds unnatural here in standard Spanish from Spain.

Sobre todo means especially, above all, or mostly.

In this sentence, it tells you that the visits were concentrated mainly in the fifth room:

• sobre todo en la quinta sala = especially/mostly in the fifth room

It is a very common expression in Spanish.

Examples:

• Me gusta viajar, sobre todo en verano.
  I like travelling, especially in summer.

• Había mucha gente, sobre todo por la tarde.
  There were lots of people, especially in the afternoon.

The comma separates the main statement from an added comment that specifies where the visits were concentrated.

Main idea:

• La galería recibió cuatrocientas visitas durante el fin de semana

Additional clarification:

• sobre todo en la quinta sala

So the comma works much like it would in English before especially or mostly when you are adding extra information.

Quinta is the feminine singular form of the ordinal number fifth.

Since sala is feminine, the ordinal must agree with it:

• el quinto piso = the fifth floor
• la quinta sala = the fifth room

So:

• quinto = masculine
• quinta = feminine

Yes, in some contexts that is possible, but the meaning or style can be slightly different.

• la quinta sala = the fifth room
• la sala cinco = room five / room number five

La quinta sala sounds like an ordinal sequence: first, second, third, fourth, fifth.

La sala cinco sounds more like a label or numbered room.

In a gallery or museum, either can be possible depending on whether you are thinking of order or numbering, but la quinta sala is perfectly natural here.

Spanish normally uses the definite article with a specific noun like this.

So la galería means the gallery. It refers to a gallery that is already known from context.

Unlike English, Spanish often uses articles more consistently with nouns. Leaving out the article here would generally sound incomplete or ungrammatical.

Because the head noun is fin, not semana.

The phrase is:

• el fin = the end
• de semana = of week

Since fin is masculine, the whole expression is el fin de semana.

Even though semana is feminine, it does not control the article here.

Because the sentence refers to a completed total in a finished time frame.

• recibió = completed fact
• recibía = ongoing, habitual, or background action

Here, the sentence gives a finished result:

• the gallery received 400 visits
• this happened during a specific weekend

So recibió is the natural choice.

If you used recibía, it would suggest something more ongoing or descriptive, for example in a larger narrative.

The accent marks show the stressed syllable.

• galería is stressed on the í: ga-le-RÍ-a
• recibió is stressed on the final ó: re-ci-BIÓ

These written accents are important because they show pronunciation and sometimes help distinguish the correct verb form.

For example:

• recibio would not be the correct standard spelling
• recibió clearly shows he/she/it received

In galería, there is actually no ll, but learners often ask about pronunciation generally, so the important sounds here are:

• g in galería
• the stress in -ría

In Peninsular Spanish, galería is pronounced roughly ga-le-RÍ-a.

The g before a is a normal hard g, like in go.
So galería begins with a sound close to ga-.

The written accent on í tells you where the stress goes.

Not necessarily.

It means that the fifth room was the area with the largest share of the visits, or that it was the main concentration point.

So the idea is:

• there were 400 visits in total
• most of the activity was in the fifth room

It does not mean that every single visit happened there.