El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Guardian placed it as the second most beautiful bookshop in the world. Before it

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El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Guardian placed it as the second most beautiful bookshop in the world. Before it became a bookshop the building was designed by architects Peró and Torres Armengo for impresario Max Glücksmann (1875-1946), and opened as a theatre called Teatro Gran Splendid in May 1919.

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