Thread by @cntraveller

For us, celebrating books is much more than just the literature itself. It’s the stories, the history and the communities. For #WorldBookDay, we’ve rounded up the places where the design has as much clout as the literary content. trib.al/aFQjKNY

1. The George Peabody Library is a decadent, light-filled research library of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. 🇺🇸

2. The entrance to the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, guarded by three giant-sized French classics. 📕

3. This incredible baroque hall is the Klementinum Library in Prague, Czech Republic. 🇨🇿 🎥 Zahara Gul

4. At Chicago’s Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, robotic arms retrieve books from the underground storage system. 🤖

5. In Brazil, this is the Royal Portuguese Reading Room – built in the 19th century by a group of Portuguese immigrants to promote culture among the Portuguese community in Rio De Janeiro. 🇵🇹 + 🇧🇷 💪

6. The library of El Escorial Monastery is located in Madrid, Spain. 💛

7. White staircases make the Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart in Germany seem like an MC Escher image. ⚪️

8. Like something out of a fairytale, we can picture Belle sliding along ladders at the Admont Abbey Library in Austria. 🧚‍♀️

9. This medieval monastic library is the Abbey Library of Saint Gall, in Switzerland. 🇨🇭

10. We can only dream of the levels of organisation at the Tianjin Binhai Library in China. 😍

For more of the world’s most beautiful bookish buildings, read the full article here ⬇️ cntraveller.com/gallery/the-mo…