Strahov Monastery

The Theological Hall of the Strahov Library, at Strahov Monastery in Prague, with its globes and lecterns. Abbot Jerome Hirnheim built the hall in 1671, and it was lengthened in the 1720s, when Siard Nosecký painted the frescoes that run the length of its vault. Its neighbor, the Philosophical Hall, carries a ceiling Franz Anton Maulbertsch painted in 1794 at the age of seventy, in six months. Plan around the rules: the regular tour offers only a glimpse into the halls, and entering them is kept for a limited number of special tours, to protect the books from humidity and dust.