It was founded in 1973 to house the Public Library. It now also contains a reading room for children, a conference room, a newspaper archive and a document room.

Installed in a traditional 17th century Canary Island house, it is configured around a typical inner patio containing an enormous dragon tree.

The building is on an irregular site, with an old part dating from 1687 looking out onto Calle de San Juan, and the front, including the main entrance, which was reformed by local artist Santiago Santana (1909) in 1973, on Calle de Gourié.

We first pass through a small hall up some steps to the inner patio, where a spectacular 150-year old dragon tree and a corridor of wooden columns on stone bases, and a large number of ornamental details such as coats of arms, ogee arches, ashlars with leafy decorations, etc., await us. They pervade us with a different and authentic atmosphere, enhanced by the silence in the Municipal Library.