The Public Library Virgilio Barco, opened his doors to the community in december 20 of 2001, with an area of 16.100 mts has a capacity of 160.000 books and receives every day 4000 visitors, was designed by the architect Rogelio Salmona and takes the name of a former president of the country Virgilio Barco Vargas (1986-1990). The general room is of three levels and it has reading room, hemeroteca, cubicles for reading, computer science, videoteca, salts computers and digital catalogs, internet and multimedia. An auditory with capacity for 500 person, music room, room of exhibitions and room of information about Bogotá. Also, It has an infantile room with capacity for 100 children that it has shops, ludoteca and marionettes' theater. The Library is considered a landmark in the contemporary Colombian architecture and one of its author's improvements works. Besides the library, the property where this is located it contains an area of restaurants, gardens, "ciclorrutas" (special avenues for bicycles only), and areas of parking. It is located in the Avenue 48 #61-50 to the occident of Bogotá.
International tel: (0057) (1) 3 15 88 90
