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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 14:17:00

An eighty-metre baroque hall lined with leather-bound volumes and crowned by a frescoed dome, the State Hall of the Austrian National Library is one of the most beautiful library interiors in the world. Built between 1721 and 1723 to designs by the imperial architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and completed by his son, it forms part of the Hofburg complex in the centre of Vienna and was conceived as the grand court library of the Habsburgs. The hall rises some twenty metres to a ceiling...