The Livraria Lello & Irmão, commonly known in English as the Lello Bookstore, is a bookstore located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese municipality of Porto.
Porto or Oporto is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Oporto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula’s major urban areas. Oporto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Photographers: joethommas
Not bad.
I read a few books by Nicolas Basbanes. I heard he was giving talks on them and went to at least one. I vaguely remember what was discussed but I think it was about great libraries or book shops. He had neat pictures but I don’t know if this was one of them. He would be hard to imagine if it wasn’t. If I had to guess, this book shop is a repurposed mansion or royal building. In any case, Barnes and Noble, etc can cry in their milk.
He and I talked a bit and we got on well with both of us being bibliophiles and devotees of libraries.
Basbanes’s web site for more.