These libraries will make you say 'wow!'
The first time I walked into this library, I thought to myself, ‘Oh my God this looks just like the library in Beauty & the Beast.” It wasn’t until later that I found out this is the library used in the live-person version of Beauty & the Beast with Emma Watson. The Baroque library is part of the University of Coimbra and a National Monument in Portugal. It looks like an ornate, wood-paneled vault with gold details and ladders that look like they slide perfectly across the shelves.
Dark arched beams stretch on and on in the aptly named “long room” of this massive library, built between 1712 and 1732. The room holds more than 200,000 of Trinity College Library’s oldest books, as well as a copy of every book published in Ireland. Aside from dizzying stacks of books, look for the medieval Brian Boru harp, Ireland’s national symbol.There are several beautiful libraries in Oxford, but this one is the prettiest.
Built during the Renaissance, this library was so beautiful it supposedly inspired the architecture and design in the Vatican Library in Rome. Architect Juan de Herrera designed the arched ceilings and lines of shelves to be filled not only with books, but also things like globes and astrolabes, per the request of King Phillip II who wanted science, literature, and the arts to come together.
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