Presentation

The Casa de Velázquez library is a research library specialising in the area of Hispanic and Iberian culture. It contains 104,000 books and 1,700 journal titles (1,115 current) embracing the areas of Humanities and Fine Art.

The main fields are:

History of Spain, Portugal and Latin America (colonial period)
Spanish literature
Painting, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, music, videoinstallations
Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, France and North Africa
Social sciences: anthropology, ethnology, economics and sociology
Geography

Special items:

Donations from the Marqués del Saltillo and Don Ignacio Olagüe
Geographical maps
Aerial photographs of Spain: flights from 1956 and 1975
Microfilms and microfiches of French PhD theses