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Founded in 1837 by Portuguese immigrants to promote culture amongst the Portuguese community. |
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Trinity College Library,
Dublin, Ireland.
This is the largest library in Ireland, grouping old manuscripts and Irish literature. It is also the permanent home to the Book of Kells, a manuscript illustrated with patterns realized by Celtics monks around 800. |
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Stiftsbibliothek Admont,
Admont, Austria.
This is the world’s largest monastery library built in 1776, famous for its Baroque architecture, art and old manuscripts. |
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Biblioteca do Convento de Mafra,
Mafra, Portugal.
More than 40,000 leather-bound volumes are collected in this long row with some rarities like the first edition "Os Lusíadas" written by Portuguese poet Camões. |
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Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève,
Paris, France.
This library was built in 1851 and contains more than 2m documents. |
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Rijksmuseum, Research Library,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This library, built in 1885, is the largest public art history research library in the country.
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Biblioteca Statale Oratoriana dei Girolamini,
Naples, Italy.
This is the oldest library in Naples open to the public since 1566, located near the chiesa dei Girolamini. |
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Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster,
Kremsmünster, Austria.
Built between 1680 and 1689 in a monastery, this library contains about 160,000 rare volumes.
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Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen,
St Gallen, Switzerland.
Founded in the 8e secular and rebuilt in the 16e in a baroque style, this is the oldest library of Switzerland and the one of the earliest monastic libraries in the world. |
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Strahovská Knihovna,
Prague, Czech Republic.
With its more than 200 000 works, The library is one of the most preserved of Europe with two grand baroque halls dating from 1671-1674 and 1794 for the second one. |
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Biblioteca Joanina,
Coimbra, Portugal.
Built in the 18th century in the university of Coimbra, it has the particularity to houses bats to protect the books against insects. |
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