The literary and imaginative worlds have no boundaries, they are inspired by life's moments, emotions, colors, landscapes, details, feelings and, believe it or not, even coffee shops. We present to you the most famous ones, in which many a pen flowed like oil on paper.
Some of the most famous novellas and literary events, which mark history were inspired by famous European cafes. From American writers, who immigrated to Europe to travel Henrik Ibsen - cafes were a real and unique place to work, which also offered socializing, story-building and, of course, good food and drink. If we ourselves ever change our room for a cafe or an inn and take our school books with us, we might begin to appreciate the literary meaning of cafes. Let's take a closer look at some of the most famous ones.
La Rotonde, Paris, France
La Rotonde is one of the most famous Parisian cafes where American expatriate writers used to hang out, as Ernest Hemingway wrote about in his novel The Sun Also Rises. Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and TS Eliot, among others, hung out in the cafe.
Le Dome Cafe in Paris was actually the first more famous cafe that attracted many expats and intellectuals to the Montparnasse area. La Rotonde, Le Select and La Coupole were its rivals, but the Dome is one of the more reputable seafood restaurants today.
The Literary Cafe in St. Petersburg is said to have been frequented by great Russian writers, including Chernyshevsky and Dostoyevsky, and is said to be the last cafe Alexander Pushkin visited before he died.
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Today, a popular tourist spot, Les deux Magots is the oldest café in Paris, best known as Hemingway's favorite place in Paris. Other legendary writers and artists were also served in it, such as Jean Paul Sartre, Rimbaud, Simone de Beauvoir and even Picasso.
Like Paris, Vienna is also full of cafes where writers, artists and intellectuals once frequented. Cafe Braunerhof can be found near the Habsburg Palace and is said to have been the favorite place of the writer Thomas Bernhard.
Today, the Cafe de Flore is the center of gatherings of more famous personalities from the world of fashion, and Hemingway visited here many times with his friends. In 1994, Cafe de Flore started its own literary awards, called the Prix de Flore, which encourage promising young French-speaking writers of literature. In addition to the cash prize, the winner will also receive a glass of Pouillly-Fume white wine every day of the year.
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The Dingo Bar opened its doors in 1923, catering to English and American expats. It is also where Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald first met.
Cafe Montmartre is located in Prague and was sometimes called by its nickname - Montik or Monty. Some of the most important German and Czechoslovakian writers - Franz Kafka, Eduard Bass and Max Brod - used to come here for coffee.
The Pedrocchi Cafe in Padua is one of the largest cafes in the world and was once frequented by Lord Byron and the French writer Stendhal.
The bar, actually found in Paris, is named after one of its first managers. It opened in 1911, and it was Bar Harry that was said to be responsible for making emigrants legitimately go to cafes. He was particularly liked by Sinclair Lewis, Humphrey Bogart and Hemingway.
Antico Caffe Greco can be found near the Spanish Steps in Rome, where it got its place in 1760 and has been considered the most famous ever since. In recent centuries, writers such as Lord Byron, John Keats, Henrik Ibsen and Hans Christian Andersen visited it.
Another historic cafe in the Montparnasse district of Paris is called La Coupole and first served coffee in 1927. It could seat 600 people, including Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, and today the cafe is also an official historical monument.
This cafe is also found in Montparnasse, Paris, and is located near La Closerie. It opened in 1847 and attracted everyone from Henry James, Leon Trotsky to Gertrude Stein and Hemingway.
One of the most famous cafes in Florence is definitely Cafe Giubbe Rosse, named after Garibaldi's red shirt, which is also the inspiration for the waiter's uniform. Well-known Italian poets found their social place in it.
The Grand Hotel in Oslo is home to the famous Grand Cafe restaurant, where a lot of people meet, and where Henrik Ibsen is said to have had lunch every day. Roald Dahl also stayed at the hotel in his youth.
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