National and University Library
Brick-and-stone library with a black marble colonnaded stair rising to a sunlit reading room.
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This guide to the National and University Library in Ljubljana begins on a January day in 1944, when the war reached Joze Plecnik's newest building from an unexpected direction. It reaches back to the ducal palace that stood here before the 1895 earthquake, and to an architect who thought of his library as a temple. Stand by the main door on Turjaska Street, where the facade and the door handles are close enough to study.
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