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The World’s Most Beautiful Library Is In Prague, Czech Republic
The Klementinum library, an exquisite example of Baroque architecture, was first opened in 1722 as part of the Jesuit university, and houses over 20,000 books. It was voted as one of the most beautiful and majestic libraries in the world by our readers!
The ceiling frescoes of this library in Prague were painted by Jan Hiebl. In 1781, director Karel Rafael Ungar established Biblioteca Nationalis, a collection of Czech language literature. Some of the rare historical books from this collection have been sent to Google for scanning and will eventually be available on Google Books.
Just as the Prague library is a rare and little-known treasure, so is it associated with several little-known facts: the Klementinum used to be the third largest Jesuit college in the world; recording of local weather began there in 1775 and had continued ever since; it is featured in a novel by famous Spanish-language writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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TomasFreedom 10 years ago
I am happy to see my own country name on sites like this :) really interesting to see how others are looking on my home.)
varwenea 10 years ago
This is so gorgeous!! Tomas, is it open to the public?
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Fredrick Inman 5 years ago
Why for once? One should always be proud of their heritage. All races and societies have value and sometimes to contribute to humanity.
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Vaclav Sulista 5 years ago
https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries/member-countries/czechia_en just simply Czechia! This old library has nothing to do with a republic founded in 1993!
Gloria Oliver 9 years ago
Gorgeous! It truly is magnificent! While I appreciate nature's beauty, I also appreciate what man's God-given talent can also produce as beauty. Truly amazing in it's artwork.
Kristina Nichiporuk 5 years ago
Hi Dainius, I'm Kristina from Online English Learning School in Russia Skyeng. Could you kindly give us permission to refer to your article for educational purposes in our lessons? The process is organised as follows: we take an article, our specialists reduce and adapt it to the students level. Further, we post it on our platform with reference to the source, author and the original article and different language learning tasks.
Pascale Ehrmann 5 years ago
What is really sad is that, even if it's "open to the public" (I was there last August) all you can do is wait in line (for a very long time !) to glimpse for 3 minutes through the gate into the library. You can't go in, and as the door is rather narrow and the library very long you can't see a lot of things neither really enjoy anything ! What you see on the pictures is not what you really get to see. I know it's to protect the room, but I've been in many historic libraries and some manage to have people walk inside through a narrow path that lets you discover the whole room without damaging anything ! I was really disappointed in Prague !
TomasFreedom 10 years ago
I am happy to see my own country name on sites like this :) really interesting to see how others are looking on my home.)
varwenea 10 years ago
This is so gorgeous!! Tomas, is it open to the public?
Load More Replies... Fredrick Inman 5 years ago
Why for once? One should always be proud of their heritage. All races and societies have value and sometimes to contribute to humanity.
Load More Replies... Vaclav Sulista 5 years ago
https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries/member-countries/czechia_en just simply Czechia! This old library has nothing to do with a republic founded in 1993!
Gloria Oliver 9 years ago
Gorgeous! It truly is magnificent! While I appreciate nature's beauty, I also appreciate what man's God-given talent can also produce as beauty. Truly amazing in it's artwork.
Kristina Nichiporuk 5 years ago
Hi Dainius, I'm Kristina from Online English Learning School in Russia Skyeng. Could you kindly give us permission to refer to your article for educational purposes in our lessons? The process is organised as follows: we take an article, our specialists reduce and adapt it to the students level. Further, we post it on our platform with reference to the source, author and the original article and different language learning tasks.
Pascale Ehrmann 5 years ago
What is really sad is that, even if it's "open to the public" (I was there last August) all you can do is wait in line (for a very long time !) to glimpse for 3 minutes through the gate into the library. You can't go in, and as the door is rather narrow and the library very long you can't see a lot of things neither really enjoy anything ! What you see on the pictures is not what you really get to see. I know it's to protect the room, but I've been in many historic libraries and some manage to have people walk inside through a narrow path that lets you discover the whole room without damaging anything ! I was really disappointed in Prague !
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