Biblioteca Publica Municipal do Porto

Library on the Park

It used to be a convent but now is the major city library. A big white stucco building set on a very pretty park, worth seeing.

Interior Courtyard/Plaza is a "Must-see"

In mid-September, we explored the Biblioteca Publica Municipal do Porto – the Public Library. From the exterior, this mid-1800's building is not that distinctive, but the interior courtyard is another...

Big in Baedeker

We found a description of the library in a 1908 Baedeker guide recommending the site. It was converted to a library about 60 years before that was written and now has settled into that life and doesn’...

Great place to visit

Quite unique in an old convent cloisters still there but with glass panels, interesting old mathematic and astronomy books. A copy of every book ever written in Porto housed at this library. Also a v...

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It is a public library located in an ancient 18th century convent, for the outside, and for the inside very beautiful deserves the value, this very central, it is not common to see tourists.