The new technologies by their very nature tend to explore areas that have not yet been touched even creating new human reality as has happened with the invention of the Internet and its diffusion.

But there are things that, despite the attempt to substitute technology, remain in the collective imagination as they are, without changing their shape over the centuries. One invention that more is changing the habits and customs of the people are certainly media players, e-book reader, and all technologies that seek to replace paper-based forms of culture. One out of all the IPAD, which allows you to bring your entire press releases in a few inches of screen and a few grams of weight. While these technologies have the advantage of having an impact on the environment certainly less than the paper the other people's bad because in a sense lose contact with reality. In fact, no reader can ever reproduce the excitement of a new book in his hands, his scent, or the scent of an ancient library of volumes on the shelves and even the dust that often lurks in the pages.

One of the libraries that most of the press and tells the story of its evolution is surely the library of the Abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy pearl in the center that despite the bombing during the Second World War has kept intact charm and mystery. Numerous are the volumes collected in them that have come to us directly from the period before the invention of printing in 2000 brought by the patient work of monks called scribes who meticulously copied and decorated these precious volumes invaluable.

Do not skimp in this area history and culture anyway. Staying in a hotel room you can visit sites that carry important moments of World War II but also the triumphant Roman times. Just think of the Roman arena of Cassino, the Museum Historiale site in the same city and all the archaeological locations in the area not to forget the charming spa Varroniane and the nearby capital of the world: Rome.

But back to the library of the Abbey of Monte Cassino, there are many works on display inside. The library in question was a victim during the Second World War in a bombing that destroyed the entire monument as well as a library that was kept inside. The integrated library and archives in it represented and still represent one of the richest heritage of history, preserving it in them even volumes dating from the early Middle Ages. This precious bits of history at the time was rescued by German troops that they carry all the volumes at first in the Rocca of Spoleto and then go to the Vatican and finally return to the Abbey after its reconstruction. A long and intricate path that can be traced by staying in rooms at Cassino and moving in different surroundings.

A long path that has allowed us to take with us but what has been our history and excellence for which Italy and the whole medieval culture is known throughout the world.