Abbey Library of Saint Gall — Attraction in St. Gallen

It's really a very impressive library to visit and experience. Befire allowed to enter the library. You are required to wear large pantoffols that you place over your street shoes. It is required to protect the floor in the library. Once entering the library, you feel like you walk into an impressive and historical place. It takes some time to adjust to the splendour of the interior. There are so many impulses to process and to look at. Especially the paintings on the roof, the cabinets with the old books etc. We would have liked to spend some more time here, but we arrived about 1 hour before closing time and had unfortunately to hurry up. Apart from the library, there is also a cellar museum with old religious objects used in the mass. The special pieces are old bibles that have covers that contain carved out ivory pieces that depict religious situations. It was also impressive, but we had very little time left to look further around. We will need to come back to explore this further and in...

CHF12 for library only and CHF18 for both library and cave. Audio guide is not included in this price. Forgive my ignorance but I really don’t understand why “photography without flash” is not allowed in the library and cave. The library is just one room with its windows open, how can this (outside temperature, humidity) damages the books less than a photo without flash? The library was beautiful from doors to ceilings. Worth a visit. The orb is a fabrication of the original one, which is in Zurich. FYI most documents on display here talk about St. Othmar, instead of St. Gall. To enter, you have to store your bag of any size in locker AND wear a pair of big fabric slippers on top of your shoes. This I didn’t mind (a good practice to protect the wooden floor I’d say), but I was gliding around the library all the way bc it was difficult taking steps in them. The same building hosts a school above the library, and the inner courtyard is...

If you are ever visiting St. Gallen, you have to visit the Abbey Bibliotek, it is amazingly adorned and painted, with a collection of some of the oldest books. Just amazing that they survived this long, incredible. There is an entrance fee, and they also have an audio guided system, that is worth the money, so informative. The entrance to the library, above the doorway is in Greek, and reads, "the souls doctor" or "doctor to the soul". The ticket also allows entrance to the lower level of collections of Ancient relics that were found around the area. Very informative and historical tour. The Abbey itself is an incredible part, also worth a visit, heavily adorned and embellished, the painted ceilings are impressive, just fantastic, something you have to see and admire, don't...