Cafe Tortoni

As much its decoration and architecture - the high columns, the old photos, the pictures and sculptures as the young men and the traditional customer of Buenosairean turn it the most famous coffee of Buenos Aires and one of the symbols of the city. In 2008, the Tortoni turns 150 years. It founded it on 1858 Jean Touan, a French immigrant who copied the name of a successful Parisian coffee of the time. Originally it was located to the return, where now it is the seat Roberto Arlt; later it was changed to Rivadavia (those that at the moment is the bottoms of the coffee) and in 1880 the entrance of Avenue of May was opened. In addition to the long list of famous visitors who all typical bar must have (Borges, Pirandello, Rubinstein, Cortázar, Garci'a Lorca, the kings of Spain, Hillary Clinton, F. F. Coppola, etc.), to the Tortoni concur clerks of the zone, politicians, artists, tangueros and, at the moment, thousands of tourists, national as as much foreign. In order to enter the Tortoni it is necessary to make tail. In the menu of the bar one is the most typical of the Buenosairean gastronomy and some products that no longer are obtained in other bars, like merengada milk. The Tortoni works on one of the most important avenues of the city; one of the most representative culturally and also one of most beautiful. In tribute of Avenue of May, of Saturday 12 of April to Sunday 18 of May the Buenosairean government organizes a cycle of activities under the name of “the great one via”. It will include recitales, to char them with writers and a race of young men. The Tortoni, and its scene of tango, is one of the seats of festejo. Conocés the Tortoni? What has of special the place? Conocés other coffees, in Buenos Aires or outside, that looks like to him?

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