The National library of Catalonia

Today we got a guided tour at the National library of Catalonia. It's an old, gothic hospital from the 15th century. Beautiful!

They showed us their collections and told us about the history of the library and how they work. Apart from ordinary library service they also have a museum. There were printers and old documents, from different periods, on display. It was amazing to see the books that were completely written by human hand. In ink. And hundreds of pages. Someone, for some hundreds of years ago, really put both time and effort into these artifacts.

They also had a display case where different kinds of media were presented. This in order to show that information can be stored in many different ways.

My favourite part though was their Cervantes collection. So many editions of Don Quijote! Don Quijote was one of the first novels I bought and I might have been around ten at that time. My inner girl was jumping of excitement!

The weather here is okay. It rained a little today but it's still warm. Like swedish summer. In Sweden there's apparently this huge storm making a lot of mess throughout the country so we're quite happy with the weather here.

/Sofia Lundgren