The initial edition of Festival KM Amèrica runs through June 19 at Barcelona’s new Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez.

Barcelona’s Third-Largest Municipal Library. The new Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez in Barcelona is the third largest facility in the city’s 40-library network. It was opened May 28 in the working-class district of Sant Martí.

The design is by Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano of the Madrid-based firm Suma Arquitectura and is built primarily of wood. It takes its inspiration from Nordic design, recalling the 2018 Helsinki Central Library Oodi, if on a smaller scale. The 3,000-square-meter library (32,291 square feet) has an investment of €11.4 million (US$11.8 million). It’s part of an impressive plan to develop the city’s library infrastructure over more than 20 years.

The new library is dedicated to literature from Latin America. It has partnered with the city’s Casa America Catalunya to run a new festival around Latin American literature called Festival KM Amèrica, which opens today (June 16) and runs through Sunday.

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