It is the oldest text and part of the Camareta collection, which consists of about 600 volumes of high historical value.
These include, among other things, original documents, manuscripts, unique copies in the country, first printings, which mostly correspond to publications from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; with old and luxurious bindings (leather, wood, parchment, etc.).
The originals of the Declaration of Independence (1825) and the first Constitution (1930) are under their protection and are displayed in the Hall of Lost Steps of the Legislative Palace, guarded by soldiers of the Florida Battalion in period uniform.
The collection consists of about 250,000 volumes of bibliographic works, about 700,000 newspapers and weeklies, as well as tens of thousands of general periodicals from 1835 to the present and about 1,300 microfilms, the head of library services, Mónica, told Orbe. Peace.
The imposing central hall is decorated in the Pompeian style and consists of hardwood floors, ceilings, shelves, fencing, balconies and internal stairs, all made in Milan, Italy.
In the center of the room stands the model of the Italian sculptor AngelZanelli, who won the competition for the monument to General José Gervasio Artigas, whose equestrian statue stands in the Plaza Independencia in Montevideo.
On the one hand, a replica of the Venus de Milo seems to guard the shelves full of books, fragments of history and universal and national culture, which are gradually being reproduced on a different medium in the age of digitalization.
(Taken from Orb)