The Municipal Library is an isolated building, with access through Plaza de Mainz, between the streets of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Músico Ayllón, José Maestre and Llombai. It is a brick and cement construction , with functional character and simplicity, which contains the reading rooms, deposits or warehouses of books and related services. In his façade Its greatest artistic exponent is shown, which consists of four bronze statues, larger than the natural one, next to the access stairs, which represent the father Thomas Vicente Tosca, author of mathematical treatises, the layout of the University auditorium and the plan, or the plans, of the “Valentie Edetanorum”, so well known its original for its delineation, and which can be found in the Municipal Archive of the Town Hall. Its statue is the work of the sculptor Esteve Edo, at that time dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

 

Another statue is that of Ausiàs March, the excellent poet, son of Gandia, lord of Beniarjó, due to the art of Cubells. For his part, the sculptor Alfonso Pérez Plaza, is the author of the figure of the philosopher Joan Lluís Vives, made in bronze, and with which it already has four monumental sculptures in the city of Valencia: this, that of Josep Aixa in the University, raised in the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century; that of Ramon Mateu Montesinos, first medal of Sculpture; and that of Pérez Plaza himself, in the center of the Senate of the Lluís Vives High School, version very similar to that of the Library.

The last of these statues, in front of the main façade of the Municipal Library, is the one that represents the scholar and polygrapher, son of Oliva, Gregorio Mayans i Siscar, creation of Ignacio Bayarri Lluch, "Nassio", characteristic of his art.

Created in 1902 on the basis of an old bibliographic collection, this library is enriched over the years, with the works acquired by the Valencian municipal corporation and, above all, by the valuable donations donated by illustrious Valencians.

The library is public, of a general nature, with special attention to Valencian subjects. Today the collection exceeds 85,000 works, with incunabula, manuscripts, books from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, unique copies or copies of bibliographic rarity, numerous brochures and loose leaves, prints and engravings, posters, etc.

 

Donations and bequests:

They constitute the most important part of the Library's bibliographic and documentary collection. By their entity they are preserved independent, with their own topographic signature:

Faustino Barberá Martí (BM)
Facundo Burriel and García de Polavieja (BG)
José Cano Marqués (JC)
Joan Churat Sauri (CH)
Rafael Ferreres Ciurana (RF)
Lluís Fullana Mira (FM)
Rafael Janini and Janini (Janini)
Francisco Martí Grajales (MG)
Ernesto Martínez Ferrando (MF)
Juan Bautista Peris (called Chopeti) (Chopeti)
Carola Reig Salvà (CR)
José Sanchis Pertegás (SP)
Salvador Sastre Nadal (S)
Pedro Sucías Aparicio (Sucías)
Vicente Vives Liern (VL)

 

Special Collections:

Biblioteca Esperanto (I) with more than 900 works.
Posters (Cart) with more than 700
Theatre Collection (Tomaset) (T)


Dades bàsiques

Horari:

Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Monday and Wednesday: from 4.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Direcció:

Plaza de Mainz, 1
46018 Valencia
Telephone: 963 525 478
E-mail: bcentral@valencia.es