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Ateneu Barcelonès

Ateneu Barcelonès

Canuda, 6
08002 Barcelona
Tel. 93 343 61 21[email protected]Visit website

Ateneu Barcelonès

The Ateneu Barcelonès is an association that has been accompanying Catalan society and culture for over one hundred and fifty years with the aim of being one of the main centers of intellectual debate.

Its main objectives are to promote citizen cultural self-education, to promote an open, transversal and constructive dialogue with civil society, to be a center for the dissemination of national debates and a creative nucleus to promote intellectual activity. collective. 

Its headquarters, the Palau Savassona, is full of activity thanks to an intense and varied cultural agenda open to all citizens. Various activities take place every day, such as conferences, debates, round tables, concerts, recitals, workshops, film screenings or courses. A solid cultural offer that more than 300,000 people enjoy every year.

The Ateneu also hosts the most important private civil library in Catalonia, which has one of the most valuable bibliographic collections in the country. It consists of 250,000 documents, 1,800 journal titles, 20 incunabula, 50 manuscript titles and nearly 3,000 old book works. And 40% of its holdings cannot be found in other libraries.

In addition, it has the School of Writing, the most important in its kind in Spain. A training center that promotes the teaching of the arts and the craft of the word.

The Ateneu is, above all, a privileged space to actively participate in citizen life, a plural, free and democratic speaker of civil society, at the service of culture and the country.

In Carrer de la Canuda in Barcelona you have the best space to talk, debate, get information, train, study, express your opinions, explain your projects and enjoy the garden of the Ateneu which is an oasis in the center of the city.

We invite you to participate. Long live the Athenaeum!

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