"Readers in box seats.
Books fill up the former stalls.
Cafe on the stage."
— h/t ChatGPT
From 2023 03 14 Argentina Patagonia |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from The Grand Splendid Athenaeum, a bookstore in Buenos Aires. In 2019, it was named the "world's most beautiful bookstore" by the National Geographic. It gets no argument from me. It's located in a former theater called Teatro Gran Splendid. Customer seating exists in the still-intact theater boxes. A cafe serves food and drinks on the former stage. Over a million people visit annually, including "L" and me. We didn't buy any books (the vast majority are in Spanish), but we did eat lunch. Beautiful.
Another photo after the jump.
From 2023 03 14 Argentina Patagonia |
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