Libraries

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Libraries':

  • Ancient ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata Chinguetti - a historically significant Koran library
  • Blenheim Palace Long Library: its original books were sold, now the magnificent Willis organ is the centre piece
  • Botanical Garden, Padua Scientific library
  • Budapest Burg Library
  • Changdeokgung Palace Complex Changdeokgung Palace's Court Library in the secret garden
  • Cilento and Vallo di Diano Certosa di Padula
  • Classical Weimar Anna Amalia Library
  • Convent of St. Gall St. Gall Library
  • El Escurial
  • Fasil Ghebbi
  • Florence National Central Library
  • Haeinsa Temple Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
  • Istanbul (Topkapi) Enderun Library
  • Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba Great Library of the Society of Jesus, in Cordoba's University
  • Kew Gardens Created 1852 - one of the world's major botanical libraries
  • La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle Bibliothčque de la Ville de la Chaux-de-Fonds (with murals)
  • Macao Sir Robert Ho Tung Library (1894)
  • Mount Athos A number of the Monasteries on Mt Athos contain significant libraries eg Pantelemion Hilandar ; link
  • Naples Girolamini Convent Library
  • Nesvizh "The books of the library originated from practically all European printing houses of the period from the 15th to the first half of the 20th centuries. … A map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the so-called Radziwill map, was of particular significance to Central European cartography… It was the first map in the history of cartography to give a true picture of the entire territory of Belarus and Lithuania" (AB evaluation)
  • Old City of Jerusalem Khaldiyya, Gulbenkian Library
  • Pannonhalma
  • Potsdam Gothic Library at Babelsberg Castle
  • Prague Strahov Monastery Library
  • Puebla Biblioteca Palafoxana
  • Residences of the Royal House of Savoy Royal Library
  • Rila Monastery Housing 250 manuscripts and 9,000 old printed matters
  • Royal Palace at Caserta Palatine Library; link
  • Saint Catherine Area "The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. Its strength lies in Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, and Syriac texts. The Codex Sinaiticus, now in the British Library, left the monastery in the 19th century for Russia, in circumstances that are now disputed."
  • Salamanca Old library of the University of Salamanca
  • Seville Archivo de Indias
  • Sucre National Library, holding documents since the 15th century
  • Valetta National Library of Malta (originated in 1555)
  • Vatican City Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana
  • Venice and its Lagoon Biblioteca Marciana; San Lazzaro degli Armeni with its 150000 vol library
  • Vienna Hofburg Library
  • Wachau Cultural Landscape Stift Melk's Monastic Library & Göttweig Abbey: The abbey has a library of 130,000 books and manuscripts, and a particularly important collection of religious engravings, besides valuable collections of coins, antiquities, musical manuscripts and natural history, all of which survived the dangers of World War II and its immediate aftermath almost without loss.
  • Westminster House of Common's Library in Westminster palace
  • Yuso and Suso Monasteries Yuso