The good news came from the most watched Antena 3 news show. The Gabriel García Márquez library in Barcelona has been declared the best in the world. The images he saw Alicante audience they turned out to be obscene. It’s as if a Chadian news program is showing a contest of Parisian great chefs.
Its 6 floors and 4,000 square meters are full of open spaces open to the use of thousands of daily visitors who enjoy reading a book or listening to music in the facilities. any type of armchair, sofa, chaise longue or hammock fills its charming corners.
You don’t have to go that far to find libraries that will take your breath away though. The Regional Library of Murcia, created in 1986, is enviable. It is painful that Alicante, which is about to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, does not even come close to a center with similar characteristics. It is painful that the state that owns the Azorín Library left it to die. But it is demoralizing that for forty years neither the Generalitat, nor the Provincial Council, nor the City Council have been able to achieve this. Providing Alicante with a dignified and up-to-date library for the 21st century This run exists in almost every city in its range. If two or more sports centers coexist in any city, what problem is there in multiplying large reading areas?
Wandering Spain through its libraries means diving into the various speeds at which culture travels in our country, checking out how deep Alicante is. It is a pity that the Azorín library does not even function as a climate shelter. Even the air conditioner stopped working this summer. Its workers had to go on strike until their facilities ceased to be a sauna. for honor.