World's Most Beautiful Libraries

For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers, for others it’s abandoned factories or lost cities. But for those who enjoy reading, a huge beautiful library is a place of endless pleasure. Meet 20 of the biggest and most beautiful libraries around the globe.


Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland





Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil




Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland




Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria



Jay Walker's Private Library



Rijkmuseum Library, Amsterdam



Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada



Strahov Monastery - Theological Library, Prague, Czechoslovakia




Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany





Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal




Wiblingen Monastary Library, Ulm, Germany




Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria



Central Library, Seattle




Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria




George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA


National Library, Belarus

Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden


Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy



Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England


Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US

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