Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess (what princess isn't beautiful apart from Princess Fiona in Shrek and even she has a choice) who was locked away by her father on top of a glass mountain. So slippery was the glass that it prevented anyone getting near the princess. One prince on his horse made it part way up but slid back down, with the same happening to a second prince. Finally a poor, but handsome prince on a magic horse made it to the top and married the princess.The newly opened National Library of Latvia is inspired by this fairytale. The whole building is the glass mountain with the princess represented by the crown shaped building on the top while the three princes are the triangular shaped outcrops on the long side of the building.
Now nicked names the Castle of Light, the inside of the building is hollow and from the bottom of the atrium the view is of six stories of books.
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