Simons Book Club | Palácio Nacional de Mafra @SimonsBookClub | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I made a list of Portugal’s best libraries and bookstores, and Mafra’s Library is right up there. Plus, it’s nested in the National Palace of Mafra, which is always stunning to look at. So I decided to check out both.
After a 6€ entry fee, I walked up four flights of stairs, and through huge halls for quite a while, until I finally made it to the place I wanted to be.
Sadly, it’s not a library you can walk around in. You can enter through the doors and then, behind a rope and guard, look at the huge sweeping hall of old books from a distance.
I would have loved to get a closer look, to see the names of books that I probably couldn’t even read, and to imagine what it was like for scholars back in the day.
#portugal #mafra #palace
I made a list of Portugal’s best libraries and bookstores, and Mafra’s Library is right up there. Plus, it’s nested in the National Palace of Mafra, which is always stunning to look at. So I decided to check out both.
After a 6€ entry fee, I walked up four flights of stairs, and through huge halls for quite a while, until I finally made it to the place I wanted to be.
Sadly, it’s not a library you can walk around in. You can enter through the doors and then, behind a rope and guard, look at the huge sweeping hall of old books from a distance.
I would have loved to get a closer look, to see the names of books that I probably couldn’t even read, and to imagine what it was like for scholars back in the day.
#portugal #mafra #palace
