The Lello Bookstore. Porto Portugal Editorial Image

The Lello Bookstore was built in 1906 in Porto, Portugal by The Lello Brothers who formerly owned another bookstore a few streets away. Their new bookstore is one of the most ornate bookstores in the world, mixing Neo-Gothic and Art Dec elements Beautifully carved wood ceilings, a stain-glassed roof, an undulating, opulent red staircase, and a built-in wheel-barrow on rails for moving the store’s books, make Lello seem like the bookstore out of some fantasy-world J.K. Rowling herself lived in Porto for a short while. It has cottoned on to the Harry Potter theme, and markets itself as the Harry Potter bookstore