Behold: the El Ateno Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires, a former theatre founded in 1919, coverted into a cinema during the 1920s and finally an incredibly beautiful bookstore in 2008.
With 734 booksellers, the city is the bookstore capital of the world and this one gets about a million visitors a year.
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I was in it once. And Bs As is one of the greatest cities on earth.
It is a beautiful city alright…..just a pity about the homelessness and petty crime (way worse than here before you start to compare)….
Wow! Gorgeous!
Seems a waste to fill it with books. Lovely an all…
*splutter* WHAT
Ah i just mean if i were ever to visit i think i would love to see a live performance rather than browse books. Don’t build em like that anymore etc. Beautifull as is no doubt.
Clearly Amazon has yet to reach South America………….
Hehe
*applause*
*Sceptical double-take*
I’m bitter about my poor life choices
Nice bookshop
Accept them choices and move on, you’ll be stronger for it, bitterness wrecks everything around it.
Fantastic building, great that so many are buying and reading books, which one hopes why they are buying then.
However is Argentina still bankrupt.