These Libraries Are Gorgeous Enough To Turn Anyone Into A Bookworm

The Abbey Library of Saint Gall

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This gorgeous old library sits in the St. Gallen canton in northeastern Switzerland. It is part of a large monastery that dates back to the 600s. The library itself was built in 1759 and contains roughly 150,000 documents, many of them exceedingly rare. One visitor to the elaborately constructed two-story viewing hall pictured here reported to TeacherTrekker that “[i]t was one of the most breathtaking rooms I have ever stood in. I’m not quite sure what my eyes captured first, but it was definitely sensory overload… The walls are lined with manuscripts, some a thousand years old.”