Montolieu

Montolieu, a village of about 800 inhabitants near the Pyrenees in southern France, has become known as a book town with fifteen bookshops, a second-hand printing museum culture inspired by Belgian bookbinder Michel Braibant, and no ATM at all. Readers are sharing the story of this self-styled 'village of books', comparing it to other book destinations and admiring its slow, literary way of life.