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Library of Catalonia

The Library of Catalonia is the Catalan national library, located in , , . The primary mission of the Library of Catalonia is to collect, preserve, and spread Catalan bibliographic production and that related to the Catalan linguistic…
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Friday: 9:00 AM—8:00 PM or later
    Saturday: 9:00 AM—2:00 PM or later
    public holidays and Sunday: closed
  • Type: Library
  • Description: national library in Catalonia
  • Also known as: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”, “Biblioteca De Catalunya”, “BNC”, “bnc.cat”, and “National Library of Catalonia”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include La Rambla and Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.

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is considered the most well known street in central . A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the in its center with the at . is situated 360 metres east of Library of Catalonia.

Museum
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The is a contemporary art museum situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in neighborhood, district, in , , Spain. is situated 330 metres northwest of Library of Catalonia.

Theater building
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The Gran Teatre del , or simply , is a theater in , Spain. Situated on , it is the city's oldest theater building still in use for its original purpose. is situated 340 metres east of Library of Catalonia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Raval and Gothic Quarter.

Quarter
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El Raval is a neighborhood in the district of , the capital city of . The neighborhood, especially the part closest to the , was formerly known as Barri Xinès or Barrio Chino, meaning "Chinatown".

Quarter
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The is the historic centre of the old city of . It stretches from to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to the Ronda de Sant Pere.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the district of , . Its non-official centre, the marketplace of the same name—designed by Antoni Rovira i Trias and built between 1872 and 1882—is one of the oldest and most popular in the city, especially with the secondhand book stalls that surround the building Sunday mornings.

Library of Catalonia

Latitude
41.38101° or 41° 22′ 52″ north
Longitude
2.16951° or 2° 10′ 10″ east
Open location code
8FH495J9+CR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 192086704
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Wiki­data ID
Q1200925
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Library of Catalonia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مكتبة قطلونية الوطنية”
  • Armenian: “bnc.cat”
  • Armenian: “Կատալոնիայի ազգային գրադարան”
  • Armenian: “Կատալոնիայի գրադարան”
  • Asturian: “Biblioteca de Cataluña”
  • Asturian: “bnc.cat”
  • Basque: “bnc.cat”
  • Basque: “Kataluniako Liburutegia”
  • Belarusian: “bnc.cat”
  • Belarusian: “Бібліятэка Каталоніі”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Catalan: “Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya”
  • Catalan: “BNC”
  • Catalan: “Museu del Llibre Frederic Marès”
  • Chinese: “bnc.cat”
  • Chinese: “加泰罗尼亚图书馆”
  • Chinese: “加泰羅尼亞圖書館”
  • Chinese: “加泰隆尼亞圖書館”
  • Dutch: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Dutch: “bnc.cat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “bnc.cat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكتبة كاتالونيا الوطنيه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مكتبه كاتالونيا الوطنيه”
  • Esperanto: “Biblioteko de Katalunio”
  • Esperanto: “Biblioteko Nacia de Katalunio”
  • Esperanto: “bnc.cat”
  • Finnish: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Finnish: “bnc.cat”
  • Finnish: “Katalonian kansalliskirjasto”
  • French: “bibliothèque de Catalogne”
  • French: “Bibliothèque de Catalogne”
  • French: “Bibliothèque naitonale de Catalogne”
  • French: “bnc.cat”
  • Galician: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Galician: “bnc.cat”
  • German: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • German: “bnc.cat”
  • German: “Katalanische Nationalbibliothek”
  • Greek: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Greek: “bnc.cat”
  • Greek: “Βιβλιοθήκη της Καταλονίας”
  • Hebrew: “הספרייה הלאומית של קטלוניה”
  • Hungarian: “bnc.cat”
  • Hungarian: “Katalán Nemzeti Könytár”
  • Italian: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Italian: “bnc.cat”
  • Japanese: “bnc.cat”
  • Japanese: “カタルーニャ図書館”
  • Korean: “bnc.cat”
  • Korean: “카탈루냐 국립도서관”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Biblioteca de Catalunia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “bnc.cat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “bnc.cat”
  • Norwegian: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bibliotèca de Catalonha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “bnc.cat”
  • Persian: “bnc.cat”
  • Persian: “کتابخانه ملی کاتالونیا”
  • Polish: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Polish: “Biblioteka Narodowa Katalonii”
  • Polish: “bnc.cat”
  • Portuguese: “Biblioteca da Catalunha”
  • Portuguese: “bnc.cat”
  • Russian: “bnc.cat”
  • Russian: “Библиотека Каталонии”
  • Serbian: “Biblioteca De Catalunya”
  • Serbian: “bnc.cat”
  • Serbian: “BNC”
  • Serbian: “National Library of Catalonia”
  • Slovenian: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Slovenian: “bnc.cat”
  • Slovenian: “BNC”
  • Slovenian: “Knjižnica Katalonije”
  • Slovenian: “Nacionalna knjižnica Katalonije”
  • Slovenian: “Narodna knjižnica Katalonije”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca de Cataluña”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Nacional de Cataluña”
  • Spanish: “Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya”
  • Spanish: “bnc.cat”
  • Swedish: “BC”
  • Swedish: “Biblioteca de Catalunya”
  • Swedish: “bnc.cat”
  • Swedish: “BNC”
  • Swedish: “Kataloniens centralbibliotek”
  • Thai: “หอสมุดแห่งกาตาลุญญา”
  • Ukrainian: “bnc.cat”
  • Ukrainian: “Бібліотека Каталонії”
  • Vietnamese: “bnc.cat”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện quốc gia Catalonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Thư viện quốc gia Catalunya”
  • Welsh: “bnc.cat”
  • Welsh: “Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Catalwnia”

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