• Lello Bookstore

The Livraria Lello & Irmao was founded in 1869 and is located on Rua das Carmelitas in downtown Porto near Praça de Lisboa.
The Lello Bookstore is one of the oldest bookstores in Portugal and is considered one of the most beautiful and highly ranked bookstores in the world.
The two stories store has a mix of beautiful Neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau exterior, and Art Deco interior. The store ceiling and interior are covered with painted plaster resembling sculpted wood surfaces, along with rich wooden panelling, colourful stained-glass windows, and impressive wooden staircase leading to the 2nd floor.
In the store, Portuguese fiction and nonfiction works together with English and French books.
The Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, lived in Porto for a few years and loved the bookstore, leading to the assumption that some scenes of the Harry Potter series were inspired by the Lello Bookshop interior.

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