The Gabriel Garcí Library ;a Márquez de Barcelona, the third largest in the city, opened this Saturday dedicated to the work of the Colombian Nobel Prize winner and Latin American literature.
Located in the municipal district of Sant Martí, it was inaugurated by the Spanish Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, and the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau.
Its facilities, with 3,300 useful square meters , they have 40,000 books distributed in large open spaces, with very large windows that let in natural light on six floors. ñez, author of the famous comic characters Mortadelo and Filemón, and who also attended to the opening of the library.
It cost 11.3 million euros ($12 million) to build and is the only one of the city’s 40 libraries with a radio studio, as well as a radio station. as well as spaces for a more restful reading, such as hammocks and ergonomic armchairs.
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The library houses a large bust of the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, by the Colombian sculptor Óscar Noriega.
According to the mayor, the library is “a palace of the people, a space of freedom, equal opportunities for ideas, fraternity, solidarity.” in a context of “dark times in which hate speech, discrimination, and exclusion are on the rise.”
One of its first activities will be the first edition of the new KMAmèrica festival of Latin American literature in Barcelona, in which twenty-two writers will participate from June 16 to 19.