National Library of Spain (Madrid)

Spain / Madrid / Madrid / Calle de Recoletos, 20
 library, listed building / architectural heritage, revealed object of cultural heritage (Russia)

The National Library of Spain (Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional de España) is is the largest library in the Spanish speaking world.It was founded by King Philip V of Spain in 1712.
The library's collection is comprised of more than 30,000 manuscripts, nearly 3,000 incunabula, about 500,000 samples of printed documents dating back to before 1831, over 6,000,000 modern monographs, nearly 110,000 magazine titles and a newspaper collection estimated to consist of nearly 20,000 newspapers. The collection of printed scores and manuscripts is comprised of over 500,000 works, there are over 550,000 sound documents recorded on various kinds of media held by the library and the audio-visual collection contains over 80,000 volumes.
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Coordinates:   40°25'24"N   3°41'23"W
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