Pavelló de la República CRAI Library

The Pavelló de la República Library in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain is one of the world's leading archival libraries on subjects such as the Second Spanish Republic, the Spanish Civil War, exile from Spain during Francoist Spain and Spain's transition to democracy. In 1996, the University of Barcelona's Learning and Research Resources Centre joined the library. The library also has important materials on the Soviet Bloc and on the international political history of the twentieth history, particularly World War II. The building was originally designed and built for an exhibition in Paris in 1937, before being recreated in Barcelona in 1992.