Flood on the highest flooring of the National Library after the rains in Madrid | Culture | EUROtoday

The National Library of Spain (BNE) suffered the results of the torrential rains that fell in Madrid on Wednesday, as proven within the video included on this info, to which EL PAÍS has had entry and which two individuals near the establishment have confirmed as “authentic.” ”. The photos, that are from this Wednesday, present the flooded flooring on the twelfth and final flooring of the constructing that has been leaking for six months. The affected space is the overall warehouse, and on that flooring are “the books of the modern collection, those from the eighties of the last century,” declared the director of the BNE, Óscar Arroyo Ortega, by phone. Arroyo, who was in Vitoria, on the Plenary Session of the Sectoral Culture Conference, added that “a little more than a hundred books have been wet, which are being dried and will be returned to that place as soon as possible.” According to his calculations, “water fell for approximately an hour, until the problem was detected.”

The clarification for what occurred lies “in the work on the roof due to leaks, which we have been doing for approximately six months.” Arroyo defined that, on Wednesday, throughout some work, the operators of the corporate in cost opened a downspout and water started to enter. “Subsequently, the downspout was blocked and there have been no further problems even though it has rained. Of course, we are going to ask the company responsible for what happened for explanations,” he burdened.

However, there could also be an issue that water leaks attain decrease flooring, the place high-value volumes are situated. One of the 2 sources consulted confirms to this newspaper that the water has already leaked to the decrease flooring, the eleventh. On the eighth and seventh flooring, for instance, is the previous assortment of the BNE, with beneficial specimens from the seventeenth century.

For extra particulars, the BNE had initially referred to the Ministry of Culture as a result of the National Library, some of the necessary cultural establishments in Spain, has been and not using a communication coordinator for months and a few points associated to the media are referred on to the Department. of the Ministry headed by Ernest Urtasun. From Culture they restricted themselves to confirming that there had been “problems on that last floor because it is under construction.”

The BNE headquarters, situated subsequent to Plaza de Colón, in Madrid, is a neoclassical model palace from the final third of the nineteenth century and its architect was Francisco Jareño. The Palace of Library and Museums, because the constructing is known as, incorporates, along with its bibliographic collections and people of prints and engravings, amongst that are works by the best artists within the historical past of artwork, a set of work , bronzes, busts, furnishings, tapestries and different objects of nice historic and creative worth.

According to the establishment itself, the variety of paperwork it homes is round 34,000,000, together with books, pamphlets, unfastened sheets, magazines, diaries, previous prints, incunabula, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pictures, posters, maps and plans, postcards, sheet music, sound and audiovisual data, digital publications…

The BNE, based in 1712 because the Royal Library by Philip V, has a second headquarters in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), the Document Access Center, which serves solely as a depository because of the saturation of books in the principle constructing. It have to be taken under consideration that a lot of revealed works enter the National Library of Spain every single day, solely by advantage of the authorized deposit legal guidelines, to which have to be added those who enter by acquisition and donations.