Livraria Lello | 
Never dreamed I‘d get a chance to visit “the most beautiful bookstore in the world”.
📍Porto, Portugal
Portugal was beautiful & quite affordable! In Porto I got a ticket to go to the beautiful Livraria Lello Bookstore. They had a section The Little Prince. I bought The Little Prince book-tote, English & French editions & a special edition that you have to cut the papers as you read them, which is how they used to make books- so people would know if they were the first one to have read the book or not.
Has anyone been? Is it worth buying a gold ticket to "skip the line"? I am not sure I'm up for queuing for over an hour - one blogger's experience... but will it be this bad? ?
I visited what is supposed the most beautiful bookstore in the world and inspired JK Rowling in writing Harry Potter. It is gorgeous indeed and their collection is great (for example all the works of all the Noble prize winners in all languages) but tourism has rather spoiled it. People who never read a book but talk too loud and are only there for taking selfie crowded the famous stairs 🤷🏻♀️
As a booklover going to Porto I obviously had to visit the famous and incredibly beautiful bookshop Lello with the famous red staircase in the middle.
It is as wonderful as advertised but it is also a perfect example of how tourists spoil what we visit. We all seek this authentic feeling, but when there are too many of us the authenticity is lost.
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