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Madrid Façade of the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España)

Madrid National Library of Spain 

Madrid National

Library of Spain 

Madrid Statue of Alfonso X, El Sabio, by José Alcoverro y Amorós (National Library)

Alfonso X  (1221-1284) called The Wise (El Sabio)

Statue of St. Isidore of Seville at the entrance staircase of the National Library by José Alcoverro

Statue of St. Isidore of Seville (560-636), Doctor of the Church, and last of the Latin Fathers by José Alcoverro

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Juan Luis Vives (1493–1540), by Pere Carbonell (1892)

Antonio de Nebrija (c.1441–1522) by A.Nogués

(1547-1616)

Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo  (1856-1912) en el vestíbulo de la Biblioteca Nacional 

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Madrid, Paseo de RecoletosLeer a tu lado

(Reading side by side)Manuel García Buciños,

1984

MadridLecturas del Dos de Mayoby Enrique Velilla

Lecturas del Dos de Mayoby Enrique VelillaMadridPlaza del 2 de Mayo

BarcelonaGiant Book StatueMonument al llibre (Monument to the book), 1994 sculpture by Joan Brossa

Barcelona, Monument to the book, 1994 sculpture by Joan Brossa

Barcelona, Monument to the book, 1994 sculpture by Joan Brossa  on Passeig de Gracia, created on behalf of the guild of second-hand booksellers of Catalonia

Barcelona, Núria Tortras Homage to the Blanquerna School 1998 Placa Blanquerna

Barcelona, Núria Tortras  (1926 - 2013) Homage to the Blanquerna School 1998 Placa Blanquerna

Barcelona, Placa BlanquernaHomage to the Blanquerna School by Núria Tortras  (1926 - 2013) 

Bacelona La Lectura (1948), by Josep Clarà (1878 -1958)

Bacelona plaza Adrià,

La lliçó (Lesson), by Manuel

Silvestre de Edeta (1909-

2014)

Manuel Silvestre Montesino (Manuel Silvestre de Edeta, 1909-2014)

Manuel Silvestre Montesino (Manuel Silvestre de Edeta, 1909-2014)

Anna Frank in Gràcia, Barcelona, by Sara Pons Arnal

Anna Frank in Barcelona,

by Sara Pons Arnal2001

Anna Frank in Barcelona, by

Sara Pons Arnal

When no longer are the names of the executioners. She still lives. But never again that long shadow and the torrent of blood and tears and mourning mud and drowned so much beauty whose symbol was a girl in bloom must come back Sara Pons Arnal, January 2001

Josep María Subirachs

(1927-2014)

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OviedoEsperanza

Caminando, 1998by Julio López

Hernández (Spanish, 1930)

OviedoEsperanza Caminando represents a young student walking, absorbed in a book, not noticing the world around. This sculpture is the only work of Julio Lopez Hernandez in Oviedo city. The Esperanza Caminando (directly translated as “walk of hope”) is located in front of the entrance to the Teatro Campoamor, near the street light 

La Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, published in 1884 and 1885.

This novel has been adapted to Film and TV, written and directed by Fernando Méndez-Leite and premiered in 1995. Statue dedicated to La Regenta in Oviedo by Mauro Álvarez Fernández, 1997

OviedoStatue of Ana

Ozores, the protagonist of Alas Clarín's

novel, La Regenta

OviedoLa Regenta

OviedoLa Regenta

by Mauro Álvarez

Fernández, 1997

OviedoLa Regenta

by Mauro Álvarez

Fernández, 1997

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Burgos, Spain Sculpture subject

Books “Meninas” by En Babia-Bronce -

Craft Contest

Reading in Valladolid, Spain Belen Gonzalez

Niña Leyendo (detail)

MadridCalle San Justo Lector de Carlos

Cambonero by Félix Hernando

García

Madrid Monument to Gerardo Diego (1896-1987), Casa Cantabria

MadridCalderón de la

Barca (1600–1681) at the Plaza de

Santa Ana made by Joan Figueras Vila (1829–1881)

Palma de Mallorca, Spain Monument to Emil G.Racoviţă (1868 – 1947), Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life. In 1904, Racoviţă made a crucial discovery, which was going to influence the rest of his life. The new species of crustaceans, found in the Cueva del Drach cave of Mallorca, fascinated him to such an extent that he would give up to the oceanological research in order to dedicate himself to the underground ecosystems.

Palma de MallorcaMonument to Emil

G.Racoviţă

The publication of his work “Essay on

biospeleological problems”, in 1907, marked the birth of

biospeleology, which he defined as the science of

life forms from the underground environment

(caves and underground

waters)

Sound: Alicia de Larrocha plays Enrique Granados Danzas Espanolas (1954)

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuwww.slideshare.net/michaelasanda

2016