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The Public Library of Lleida (
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: ''Biblioteca Pública de Lleida''), also formerly called Biblioteca Pública de la Maternitat, is a public library in the city of
Lleida Lleida (, ; Spanish: Lérida ) is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It is also the capital city of the Segrià comarca, as ...
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). Its legal owner is the Generalitat de Catalunya. The building was originally a 19th-century ''maternity house'', that is, an
orphanage An orphanage is a Residential education, residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the Childcare, care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parent ...
located in the Rambla d'Aragó and has operated as the town's main library since 1998, when it was heavily reformed. It contains over 150,000 books and 9,760 printed documents from the 16th to the 19th century, 6 manuscripts and 25 incunables. The library's two cloysters are often used for artistic and cultural exhibitions, often related to local artists or focusing on social issues, including one in 1998 on its own past as an orphanage.http://www.diputaciolleida.es/actualitat/noticies/2166/exposicio-sobre-la-casa-de-la-maternitat


See also

* National Library of Catalonia *
Culture in Lleida Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor ...


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