- Argentina Bookstore Booshop Buenos Aires El Ateneo Grand Splendid Landmark Local Landmarks Theatre Vertical Shot.
- ...Aires is a city full of attractions that simply can not be propuistiti, and among them is the most luxurious bookstore South America – El Ateneo Grand Splendid.
- El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires, Argentina, started out as a theater in 1919.
- The El Ateneo Grand Splendid is now the number-one store of the Ilhsa Group and in 2007 sold more than 600,000 books.
- According to British newspaper The Guardian, El Ateneo Grand Splendid is the second best bookstore in the world.
- Originally opened as the Teatro Grand Splendid, the theater was first repurposed into a movie theater in 1929, and then into a bookstore in 2000.
- However, in 2000, the owners ordered the architect to exchange the cinema seating for tall bookshelves and El Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookstore was born.
- El Ateneo Grand Splendid is one of the most beautiful bookstores in South America, if not the world.
- "El Ateneo Grand Splendid, una joya entre las librerías del mundo" [El Ateneo Grand Splendid, dünya kütüphaneleri arasında bir mücevher].
- They decided to transform the building into a bookstore, and after three years of renovations, El Ateneo Grand Splendid was opened in 2003.