There are grand libraries, and then there is the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. Inside a Benedictine monastery in eastern Switzerland, this Baroque masterpiece holds around 160,000 volumes, including ...
The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years. The church bells were silent and much of the city was still ...
Did you know that public libraries can enrich the mind as well as the spirit? Thanks to this collection of breathtaking spots, the pursuit of knowledge can be both intellectually and aesthetically ...