This new literary festival, offering free access, will involve more than 130 bookstores, 120 libraries, and 300 authors. The event aims to promote reading and foster connections within the literary community, expanding upon the established format of La Noche de los Libros, which has been celebrated for two decades.
“"The objective is for bookstores to be the focus of this week, positioning them as meeting places for readers, authors, publishers, and booksellers. It is a festival of reading, a festival for readers in Spain's most avid reading region."
The Libromad program is diverse, including author encounters, book signings, storytelling, dramatizations, workshops, debates, musical performances, film screenings, and literary itineraries. Under the motto 'The confines of books', the initiative seeks to make books “travel from one place to another,” connecting municipalities, generations, and different ways of understanding reading, with a clear focus on cultural decentralization.
The Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport, Mariano de Paco Serrano, presented the program at Librería Machado, emphasizing the crucial role of bookstores in providing accurate recommendations to readers.
