Spain

Biblioteca Nacional de España / National Library of Spain

How to find us

Pº de Recoletos
20-22 28071
Madrid

Phone

+(34) 91 580 78 00

Email

gabinete.prensa@bne.es

Director

Óscar Arroyo Ortega

Architect

Francisco Jareño Alarcón

Year founded

1712

The National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España, BNE) is Spain’s highest library institution. The BNE is responsible for receiving Legal Deposit and identifying, describing, preserving, disseminating and promoting research on its collections, which include printed material but also incunabula, manuscripts, musical scores, graphic and audiovisual material, etc. and recently also electronic documents and the Spanish web archive

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