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World's largest monastic library hall with 70,000 volumes including medieval manuscripts and 1,400 incunabula in stunning Baroque setting.
View details →Philip II's 16th-century royal library with frescoed barrel-vaulted ceilings and 40,000 volumes including Arabic manuscripts and illuminated codices.
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Ancient monastery library housing the world's second-largest collection of early Christian manuscripts after the Vatican.
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Colonial library founded in 1604 containing rare Spanish colonial manuscripts, early American printings, and religious texts.
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Rococo wonder with oval Rococo Hall containing 40,000 volumes, including Shakespeare First Folios and works owned by Goethe.
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Historic Richelieu site with oval reading room and manuscripts department housing medieval illuminated texts.
View details →Ancient Saharan city preserving 300,000 manuscripts on science, astronomy, medicine, and Islamic scholarship from the 13th-17th centuries.
View details →A Baroque palace library stretching 88 meters with Rococo shelving holding 36,000 leather-bound volumes from the 15th-18th centuries.
View details →Modern revival of the ancient library with rare manuscripts collections and the Antiquities Museum.
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