Fundación Sancho el Sabio
Portal de Betoño 23
01013 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava
The Sancho el Sabio Library began to operate in 1955 promoted by the Caja de Ahorros Municipal de Vitoria. Holdings bequeathed by Antonio Odriozola´s Library were the core of its first collections.
Since its inception it aims to collect, manage, develop and preserve information on Basque culture: old printed books and cartographic items since the 16th-century, manuscripts since the 14th-century, prints and drawings since the 19th-century and other materials related to information and communication technologies.
The Biblioteca Sancho el Sabio covers the territories of Euskadi (Basque Country), Navarra and the French Basque Region, part of the Département des Pyrénées Atlantiques.
In 1991 the Library was transferred to its new headquarters at the Palacio Zulueta, that was built with the financial support of Alfredo Zulueta at the beginning of the 20th- century.
Collections include:
Machine readable cataloguing All catalogues, containing more than 150.000 records on-line, are automated:
Digital databases
Current Periodicals
Carmen Gómez Pérez
Monday to Friday: 10:15 to 13:45 and 16:15 to 19:15.
In August: 8:15 to 14:45.
Contact person: Charo Martinez
Telephone: 00 34 945-253932
Fax: 00 34 945-250219
E-mail: fs-inv@fsancho-sabio.es
Website: http://www.fsancho-sabio.es/