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The Public Library of Lleida ( Catalan: ''Biblioteca Pública de Lleida''), also formerly called Biblioteca Pública de la Maternitat, is a public library in the city of
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The Public Library of Lleida ( Catalan: ''Biblioteca Pública de Lleida''), also formerly called Biblioteca Pública de la Maternitat, is a public library in the city of Lleida
Lleida (, ; ; '' see below'') is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital and largest town in Segrià county, the Ponent region and the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It ...
(Catalonia
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, Spain
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). Its legal owner is the Generalitat de Catalunya
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. The building was originally a 19th-century ''maternity house'', that is, an orphanage
An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or abusi ...
located in the Rambla d'Aragó
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*La Rambla, Barcelona, a street in central Barcelona
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and has operated as the town's main library since 1998, when it was heavily reformed.
It contains over 150,000 books and 9,760 printed documents from the 16th to the 19th century, 6 manuscripts, and 25 incunables. The library's two cloysters are often used for artistic and cultural exhibitions, often related to local artists or focusing on social issues, including one in 1998 on its own past as an orphanage.
See also
*National Library of Catalonia
The Library of Catalonia (, ) is the Catalan national library, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The primary mission of the Library of Catalonia is to collect, preserve, and spread Catalan bibliographic production and that related to the ...
* Culture in Lleida
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References
External links
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