📜 Significant medieval monastic library, designated a World Heritage Site since 1983.
🔍 Known for its world-renowned collection covering 12 centuries of non-stop collecting.

Why Go

🏛️ Admire stunning Baroque rococo architecture and lavish decorations.
📚 Explore one of the oldest and most important monastic libraries globally.
📜 View a vast collection of 160,000 volumes, including incunabula and manuscripts.
✨ Experience a 'healing place for the soul' as per the Greek inscription.

Why Avoid

🚫 Cameras not allowed inside, only phone pictures without flash.
👟 Slippers required over shoes to protect wooden floors.

Tips

🌐 Access over 600 manuscripts digitally via e-codices project.
📖 Books published before 1900 must be read in a special reading room.