This place is still open. It looks the same. The waiters still wear dinner suits; actually I think t
This place is still open. It looks the same. The waiters still wear dinner suits; actually I think they may be the same guys from the photo. Visiting Café Tortoni, also a bar and music venue, is like walking on to a movie set. Jorge Luis Borges drank coffee here. It was the home of the Group for the Protection of Art and Literature between 1926 and 1943; a salon with many famous writers. Their books are displayed in beautiful cabinets in the old billiard room.Get this: the Fénix Jazz Band have played a season at Tortoni on Saturday nights every year since 1978. And it was a performance venue for Carlos Gardel, described as the most prominent figure in the history of tango. When he died in a plane crash in 1935 (with others), millions went into mourning. His body was displayed in public in Colombia, New York, Uruguay and Rio de Janeiro before being brought back to Argentina. 13000 kilometres.In the same way that Macedonians and Greeks argue over whether Alexander the Great had blue eyes or brown eyes, French and Uruguayans debate whether Carlos Gardel was born in Toulouse or Montevideo. A few years ago a birth certificate was found in Toulouse. It seems Gardel laid a deliberately false trail. Speaking of which, I am now taking tango lessons. -- source link
#sthamerica#argentina#buenosaires