Historical Cafés
Prominent cafés established before WWI that still exist within the borders of a WHS.
Connected Sites
Site | Rationale | Link |
Budapest | Budapest (Gerbeaud 1858, Ruszwurm 1824) | |
Florence | Caffe Rivoire 1872 | |
Kraków | Antre de Michalik | |
Mexico City and Xochimilco | Examples: • Café de Tacuba: 1912;at Calle de Tacuba #18. • Café La Blanca: 1915; at Av. 5 de mayo #40. | |
Naples | Caffé Gambrinus (1860) | |
Oporto | Majestic café | |
Prague | Louvre (1902), Slavia (1881) | |
Regensburg | Cafe Prinzess next to the city hall (from 1686) | |
Rome | Greco, 18th century | |
Salzburg | Tomaselli, 1705 | |
Tallinn | maiasmokk café (since 1864) | |
Venice and its Lagoon | Cafe Florian 1720 | |
Vienna | Central (opened in 1860, and in the late nineteenth century it became a key meeting place of the Viennese intellectual scene), Demel (1786), Sacher (1876), Landtmann (1873, preferred café of Sigmund Freud) |
Suggestions?
Do you know of another WHS we could connect to Historical Cafés?
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