#EBCphotography: El Ateneo Grand Splendid named the world’s most beautiful bookstore

El Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookshop in Buenos Aires. Photo by Nadine Duenas, Eagle News Service.

 

El Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookshop in Buenos Aires. Photo by Nadine Duenas, Eagle News Service.

 

BUENOS AIRES (Eagle News) — In 2019, the El Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookshop in Buenos Aires was named the “world’s most beautiful bookstore” by the National Geographic. It was a former theatre that was converted into a bookstore when it was leased by Grupo Ilhisa in February 2000.

(Nadine Duenas, Eagle News Service)