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El Ateneo

originally a theater (Teatro Grand Splendid), has now become in one of the top 5 most beautiful bookstores in the world. It has a reasonable offering of books in English.

Address: Santa Fe 1860
Website: yenny-elateneo.com (opens in a new tab)

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