20 of the 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 <

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, Czech Republic







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, Venice, Italy







Old British Reading Room, British Museum, London, England







Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US