Cafe Tortoni - Buenos Aires Remarkable Cafes

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - DECEMBER 18: Angel Sosa waiter at Cafe Tortoni poses for pictures serving tea at the table Jorge Luis Borges used to sit at Cafe Tortoni on December 18, 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Angel has waited tables for 38 years and in those years he served writer Jorge Luis Borges, actor Robert Duvall, director Francis Ford Copolla and former Presidents Raúl Alfonsín, Fernando de la Rúa and Néstor Kirchner. Cafe Tortoni was founded in 1858 by Jean Touan, a French inmigrant that named the Café Totoni after the resounding Cafe Tortoni de Paris. It is Argentina's eldest coffe place. From 1926 to 1943, this place gathered some of the most important artists of the time in his basement, were several shows were performed. Figures such as painter Benito Quinquela Martín, writer Jorge Luis Borges, singer Carlos Gardel and former Argentina's President Marcelo de Alvear gave the Cafe Tortoni the reputation to be declared "Site of Cultural Interest" in 1995. Cafe Tortoni is visited every Díay by hundreds of tourists and the room La Bodega, where the shows used to be hosted, now hosts jazz and tango sessions. Buenos Aires City Government declared October 26th as the Día de los Cafés Porteños (Díay of the traditional cafés of Buenos Aires) as a tribute of the founDíation of Cafe Tortoni,156 years ago. (Photo by Gabriel Rossi/LatinContent via Getty Images)
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - DECEMBER 18: Angel Sosa waiter at Cafe Tortoni poses for pictures serving tea at the table Jorge Luis Borges used to sit at Cafe Tortoni on December 18, 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Angel has waited tables for 38 years and in those years he served writer Jorge Luis Borges, actor Robert Duvall, director Francis Ford Copolla and former Presidents Raúl Alfonsín, Fernando de la Rúa and Néstor Kirchner. Cafe Tortoni was founded in 1858 by Jean Touan, a French inmigrant that named the Café Totoni after the resounding Cafe Tortoni de Paris. It is Argentina's eldest coffe place. From 1926 to 1943, this place gathered some of the most important artists of the time in his basement, were several shows were performed. Figures such as painter Benito Quinquela Martín, writer Jorge Luis Borges, singer Carlos Gardel and former Argentina's President Marcelo de Alvear gave the Cafe Tortoni the reputation to be declared "Site of Cultural Interest" in 1995. Cafe Tortoni is visited every Díay by hundreds of tourists and the room La Bodega, where the shows used to be hosted, now hosts jazz and tango sessions. Buenos Aires City Government declared October 26th as the Día de los Cafés Porteños (Díay of the traditional cafés of Buenos Aires) as a tribute of the founDíation of Cafe Tortoni,156 years ago. (Photo by Gabriel Rossi/LatinContent via Getty Images)
Cafe Tortoni - Buenos Aires Remarkable Cafes
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