The House of Books

The House of Books is one of the most curious and singular places that can be found in Alpago. It is a house-museum entirely carved in wood by the Venetian artist Livio De Marchi in 1990. A fairy-tale sculpture that seems to have come out of a story by the Brothers Grimm, full of extraordinary details and details. The exterior walls of the house are composed of hundreds of carved books; the roof is a huge open book while the fireplace is replaced by a large fountain pen. The fence is made up of a long row of colored pencils and a large pair of glasses as a gate. The interior is incredibly scenic: the stove and fireplace are carved from wood, and the table and chairs in the shape of books.

Unfortunately, we found the house and garden locked, and no one in town could tell us if and when you could visit the house. I thought it was stupid to drive up that far