On the corner of Bolivar and Adolfo Alsina you can find the "Librerá de Avila". It is a bookshop. But wat a bookshop. It dates from 1785 - when it started as the "Librería del Colegio". This College Bookshop existed untill 1989. Then the bookshop changed its name into Bookshop of Avila. Just look at the pictures and think yourself there with all these books. Everywhere there were little corners. A desk with a lamp. The portret of Borges on an old typewriter. Cupboards with old things, pictures, memorabilia. The huge sofa inviting you to sit and read. Another desk and books, many, many books....
We spend some hours there. It was a pitty that they were restoring the café. Now we have to come back......
The Librería has a website.... One thing is obvious: Time didn't fly in this bookshop.
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