Presentation

The Casa de Velázquez Library is a research library specialised on Iberian culture area. It contains 145.000 books and 1.813 periodicals (581 current).

The main fields are :

• History of Spain, Portugal and Latin America (colonial period).
• Spanish literature.
• Arts
• Archaeology (Iberian Peninsula and North Africa).
• Social sciences.

Specific collections:

• Jean-Pierre Berthe

  In 2014, Jean-Pierre Berthe´s library collection was donated to the Casa de Velázquez. He was an expert in Iberian America’s social  and economics history of the 17th and 18th centuries.

  Now, more than 6.000 volumes are on the library´s catalogue and SUDOC and REBIUN collective catalogues.