National Library
Completed in 1902, this glorious neoclassical monument to the written word once housed over 2 million books and manuscripts (including hand-written renditions of works by Aristotle and Plato). The collection now has a new state of the art home at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre but the Vallianeion building still serves the public as a reading room.
Information
- This particular building is accessible but not open to the general public.
- The base of the National Library has been transferred to Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, a fully accessible space, with tactile pavings, elevators with voice output, audiobooks library, braille printers and reading magnifiers.