Libraries to Become Important Tourist Attractions in 2016

Libraries are becoming less and less just a community holding and more architectural wonders that attract increasingly more tourists from around the world. Impressive buildings that hold some of the rarest books of history, they bring added value to local tourism becoming true attractions. However, visiting them requires some rules and silence is one of those mandatory rules that must be respected.

Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Brazilia - Its construction lasted for seven years as the library opened in 1900. It is known for owning the largest collection of Portuguese literature outside Portugal. In the library there are kept over 350.00 volumes, including many rare editions. Unfortunately, only researchers can have access to the rare collections based on a special permit.

Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland - It was completed and opened to the public in 1592, owning more than 4.5 million books. It is the largest library in Ireland and holds an impressive collection of diaries, manuscripts and old books. Currently, it has several roles: it is an academic library, a research library and serves as a documentation center for government departments.

National Library in Prague, Czech Republic - The library has about 60,000 subscribers. Besides the Czech texts in the bookstore there are numerous books, of course, of an inestimable historical value, from Turkey, Iran or India. In 2002, the library was hit by floods that had affected a number of important documents. In 2012 a fire also caused some damage to the institution.

Peabody Institute Library, Maryland USA - The institution was financed by George Peabody, a famous philanthropist whom in 1857 gave 300,000 dollars to the library, an astronomical sum for the nineteenth century. It is considered the "cathedral of books" and the collection of over 300,000 books is available for everyone. The construction in the neoclassical style was completed in 1878 by architect Edmund G. Lind.