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El Ateneo in Buenos AiresIn a city with a rich literary history and excellent bookstores, this theater cum bookstore is a historical and beautiful building to visit, and a great place to stock up on books and music.
In 1919 a young man named Max Glucksman decided to construct a theater house that would be both grand and splendid. Glucksman was a visionary who saw his dream realized and opened his new theater, appropriately named The Grand Splendid. For years the theater presented Argentines with performances of all kinds and local greats such as Gardel and Corsini graced the stage. In the late twenties the theater was converted into a movie house and in 1929 showed the first movies ever presented with sound. In its final metamorphosis the Ateneo was converted into the bookstore that it is today, but despite the abundance of books, the building still feels very much like the glorious theater it once was.
The basement has a collection of local and international music as well as a juniors’ section with books and toys for the youngest generation. The second floor houses science books of all varieties as well as textbooks and more secluded reading corners. The third floor has more music and a selection of DVDs. There are a few comfy chairs scattered throughout the four floors as well as in the theatre boxes on either side of the ’stage’, and you are welcome to sit and peruse through your potential purchases in style. An elegant café serves up fancy coffees, set lunches, and rich pastries in the back of the store where the stage once was.
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*http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jan/11/bestukbookshops
*http://argentinastravel.com/268/el-ateneo-in-buenos-aires-a-bookstore-to-end-all-bookstores/
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