La Pedro Salinas Library It was built by the architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg In 1992, it is part of a project integrated by the Social Services Center and the Child Care Center that are located on the other side of Toledo Street. The construction faced the challenge of being located one step away from the Puerta de Toledo, One historic doors of Madrid. Located in the Puerta de Toledo roundabout number 1. Navarro resolved it with great respect, first choosing materials that alluded to the Puerta, white stone and granite. But above all because of the shapes, round geometric figures that give a feeling of balance, pure lines, with a modern air, a public space framed by stairs that remind us of the wall that once delimited the city. Navarro made great use of natural light, through the use of skylights and a large central dome.

A modern and functional building that frames the square where we find the Puerta de Toledo Market, the old fish market in Madrid.

The library was opened to the public in 1994. It is dedicated to Peter Salinas, Spanish poet who was born in Madrid in 1891 and who belonged to the generation of '27.

Also striking is the sophisticated and monumental sundial located next to the library, designed by Alberto Corazon, is a set of nine clocks, seven sundial clocks - one vertical, one horizontal, another more equatorial-armillary and four polar ones with equation of time - and two lunar ones, for night reading, useful during the phases of the crescent, full moon and last quarter It is considered very precise thanks to the laborious calculations carried out by the mathematician Juan José Caurcel.

A abrazo.