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Secret Libraries of Rome | Atlas Obscura. Rome's 2,500-year history means that even a trip to the corner drugstore turns into a brush with the heritage of insane emperors, antiquity-grabbing cardinals, visionary artists, and power-crazed popes. The city's many libraries offer an intelligent way of making sense of this complex and well-trodden place. So what better way to experience history directly than in quiet contemplation in Rome's "secret libraries"?

Here is a list of nine to get you started. BIBLIOTECA VALLICELLIANAVia della Chiesa Nuova 18 Biblioteca Vallicelliana (via francigena.beniculturali.it) The Biblioteca Vallicelliana is almost hidden, its entrance located through a mundane door in the façade of baroque maestro Francesco Borromini's Chiesa Nuova, not far from Piazza Navona.

This was one of Rome's first libraries built for public use, and the first in the world to stack books one on top of another vertically due to the invention of the printing press. SOCIETA' GEOGRAFICA ITALIANAVia della Navicella 12. Whiteboard. 12 Useful YouTube Accessories for Teachers and Students. If you can access it in your school, YouTube has a ton of useful educational content. Here are ten tools that can make using YouTube in your classroom a better experience for everyone. Removing Related Content and Banner Advertisements. A Cleaner YouTube is a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Once installed A Cleaner YouTube allows you to display YouTube videos without any of the "related videos," comments, or display advertising.

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