The Biblioteca Palafoxiana is considered by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) as a Documentary Heritage of Mexico. Founded in 1646, it was the first public library in Latin America, and the only one that currently reflects the cultural and intellectual heritage from Europe through a selection of over 41,000 volumes of antique books that were collected throughout various stages. 

Some of the books are originals from the Palafoxiano Tridentine Seminary, and others came later thanks to the contribution of Palafox’s successor, Bishop Francis Fabian and charter, who acquired part of the existing bibliographic content from the network of Jesuit colleges in Puebla, after the expulsion of this order in 1767 and its own library. (photo by linkogecko)