Managed to snap a shot of this wonder on my birthday holiday, kindly gifted by my partner.
First opened in 1722, it has remained intact since the 18th century. Interestingly, the tour guide stated it has almost no fire protection! Let’s hope it can survive at least a couple more centuries…
IAmTheAsteroid
This is insanely cool! What a bummer they just don’t make shit like this anymore.
Beam_James_Beam_007
This reminds me of the scene from The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen where M briefs Quartermaine on the mission
bbkn7
I can hear the theme music of The Adventures of Tin-Tin, Professor Layton, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, and Uncharted playing all at once
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Holy shit, the furniture the caryatids on the furniture, the woodwork, fucking everything 😍
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not even kidding, the voice inside my head just said “Very Nice” in the style of Borat
edit: fixed typo
golden_swanky
Obsessed with Prague!
k_mon2244
I’ve never been to Prague but I’m my mind it’s just an extremely fancy city
ERhyne
Idk man, they look like they have money to me.
n33bulz
After watching season 3 of Jack Ryan, I have a whole new appreciation of just how absolutely stunning some of the older European building are.
shortroundsuicide
Is this the same library used in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen when they first meet the invisible man?
Absolutely gorgeous library! I want to go to Prague
Teasrose
So beautiful! Like the Sistine Chapel
Sneaky-Goose
Well you know what they say…if it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it!
Select-Treacle7053
My dumbass read it as barbeque library 🤣
Independent_Leave_91
Was here in July 2019. It was on my list of must sees!
RL_Shine
One of my greatest dreams is to have a place with a library of my own comperable to Dracula’s from Castlevania, or like my mother’s, and spend entire nights just reading book after book after book. Night, place two thirds the way up a mountain over a city, with a view, but secluded largely in forest, and books. And with the kind of path I am taking for career, it’s entirely possible, too. One day. And then I’ll look back at things like this and remember when I wanted it. There’s a special sentimentality there…
![The Baroque Library, Klementinum, Prague, Czech Republic [2928x3904]](https://www.ffood.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/9vr32znqtt8a1-scaled.jpg "The Baroque Library, Klementinum, Prague, Czech Republic [2928×3904]")
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Managed to snap a shot of this wonder on my birthday holiday, kindly gifted by my partner.
First opened in 1722, it has remained intact since the 18th century. Interestingly, the tour guide stated it has almost no fire protection! Let’s hope it can survive at least a couple more centuries…
This is insanely cool! What a bummer they just don’t make shit like this anymore.
This reminds me of the scene from The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen where M briefs Quartermaine on the mission
I can hear the theme music of The Adventures of Tin-Tin, Professor Layton, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, and Uncharted playing all at once
Holy shit, the furniture the caryatids on the furniture, the woodwork, fucking everything 😍
not even kidding, the voice inside my head just said “Very Nice” in the style of Borat
edit: fixed typo
Obsessed with Prague!
I’ve never been to Prague but I’m my mind it’s just an extremely fancy city
Idk man, they look like they have money to me.
After watching season 3 of Jack Ryan, I have a whole new appreciation of just how absolutely stunning some of the older European building are.
Is this the same library used in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen when they first meet the invisible man?
Looks beautiful!
Looks kinda like the Jedi archives.
edit: which I’ve just learned was actually a digital recreation of [the long room](https://lovindublin.com/best-of/trinity-college-shares-clip-of-the-long-room-the-original-jedi-library-for-may-4th) in Trinity college, Dublin.
That is breath taking.
Absolutely gorgeous library! I want to go to Prague
So beautiful! Like the Sistine Chapel
Well you know what they say…if it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it!
My dumbass read it as barbeque library 🤣
Was here in July 2019. It was on my list of must sees!
One of my greatest dreams is to have a place with a library of my own comperable to Dracula’s from Castlevania, or like my mother’s, and spend entire nights just reading book after book after book. Night, place two thirds the way up a mountain over a city, with a view, but secluded largely in forest, and books. And with the kind of path I am taking for career, it’s entirely possible, too. One day. And then I’ll look back at things like this and remember when I wanted it. There’s a special sentimentality there…