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St Gallen's Stiftsbibliothek
In
A World Lit Only by Fire
, the historian William Manchester writes about how the facts
of the ancient world survived to the modern age. One of the places where monks tirelessly
wrote out mankind's knowledge to pass on to future generations was right here in St Gal-
len's extraordinary Stiftsbibliothek (
Click here
)
. Amid Unesco-recognised rococo splend-
our you can see some of the 150,000 surviving books on display.
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