Worlds Most Beautiful Bookstore

El Ateno Grand Splendid. A converted theater into a bookstore. What a great reuse of a huge space. National Geographic magazine gave it theWorlds Best title and I can see why. The stage is a coffee/pastry area and each balcony is either shelves or a reading nook.
It lives up to the hype.
I couldn’t resist getting the first book in the Spanish version of my favorite Enid Blyton series the Famous Five. I got my first book in English on my first trip to the UK in 1970… ish.Read more