Hey y'all, it's Lavaar, and I'd like to share an episode from my friends over at Atlas Obscura.

This episode felt especially appropriate for the Laver Burton Reed's audience.

Every Monday through Friday, the Atlas Obscura Podcast takes listeners on an audio adventure,

traveling to the world's hidden wonders.

In fewer than 15 minutes, traveling to the world's hidden wonders.

In fewer than 15 minutes,

host Dylan Thoris and a collection of Atlas Obscura reporters and producers

will take you somewhere new. And along the the way you'll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories.

In this episode the show will take us to a grand library in Mofra, Portugal, about 25 miles northwest of Lisbon,

where we'll meet the librarian who looks after the library's books by day and the bats that helpfully patrol the stacks by night.

If you like this episode, be sure to follow Atlas Obscura wherever you listen to

podcasts for more stories every weekday. And now the Mofra Palace Library Bats.

The library at the National Palace of Mafra looks like the kind of library where something magical could happen at any given moment. Think long hallways, bookshelves lining the walls all the way up to these

arched ceilings. It's an old library that's part of an old palace built in the 1700s and its books are even

older. There are more than 35,000 volumes here, including what's considered

the first Encyclopedia, a whole collection of books that were

printed before the 16th century.

The collections here are

the collections here are extraordinarily rare, but the books aren't the only unusual things about this library.

At the end of the

end of the day, the lights are turned off, the building closes, and out comescura, a daily celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today we're heading to Mafra, Portugal, about 25 miles northwest of Lisbon, where we'll meet the librarian who looks after these books by day

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