How An Iconic Buenos Aires Ice Cream Shop Melted Away With COVID El Vesuvio has an important place in the entire history of ice cream in Argentina - Silvano G/Trip Advisor
BUENOS AIRES It s only now that the news is finally spreading. El Vesuvio, the country s oldest
heladería (ice-cream shop), is no more.
Founded in 1902 by the Cocitori family, the legendary Buenos Aires establishment had actually stopped operating shortly before the pandemic began. Its most recent owner was no longer able to keep it afloat. And yet, because the health crisis had occupied everyone s attention, nobody seemed to notice the end of a sweet era for the Argentine capital. Recently, though, the financial newspapers