Biblioteca Nacional

The Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) is an autonomous body responsible for safeguarding Spain's bibliographic and documentary heritage. Dedicated to gathering, cataloguing and preserving bibliographic collections, it holds around thirty million publications produced in Spanish territory since the early eighteenth century: books, journals, maps, engravings, drawings, music scores and pamphlets.

The Biblioteca Nacional disseminates this bibliographic heritage through its catalogue and the production of the Bibliografía Española, and provides public services ranging from reading rooms and remote services via its website to specialised bibliographic information services and interlibrary loans. Access to the Library's digital collections is through BNE Digital. The Museo de la Biblioteca presents the collections, the workings and the history of the Biblioteca Nacional. It also runs a programme of cultural events.

Its main seat is on the Paseo de Recoletos, in the so-called Palacio de Biblioteca y Museos Nacionales, a building it shares with the Museo Arqueológico Nacional. It also has a second site in Alcalá de Henares.