Village of the book
In Europe, the villages of the book are rural Village S in which settled trade of sale of books of occcasion and craft industry relating to the book (binding, penmanship…). The first of the kind, whose success was used as model with the others, is Hay-one-Wye with the the United Kingdom, created in 1963 by a bookseller of Oxford, Richard Booth. Redu in Belgium is the first launched on the continent in 1984. The first village of the book created in France was Bécherel (Ille-et-Vilaine) in 1987.
They are often villages, or small towns, with tourist potential important by their situation, their history or their monuments, but whose activity and population were generally declining before their conversion into villages of the book. The initiative of the creation of these villages is generally deprived, generally of the impassioned Bouquiniste S, but is often, in particular in France, supported by local government agencies which see a means there of revitalizing certain areas.
List villages of the book
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