Spanish Coffee and famous paintings in specialty cafes around the world

First stop: coffee and famous paintings in Spain

Barcelona four Cat Cafe (Els 4 Gats)

Tourists keep stopping at the four Cat Cafe on Montsio Street in Barcelona to look at the small facade of the cafe and the poster by Ramon Casas. In 1899, 17-year-old Picasso held his first exhibition in this cafe, and his paintings were used as the cover of the menu. In Spanish, "four cats" means three or five people. There have been architects Gaudi, musician Isaac Albenis, and so on. But it may be difficult for three or five friends to maintain a pub, and six years later, "four cats" are also closed. Now the store reopened in 1978.

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Today, replicas of Picasso's solo exhibition are still hanging in the lobby of the "four Cats" Cafe, and the interior furnishings and decorations make people feel like going back to the golden age of Barcelona. Today, the most important asset of the four Cat Restaurant is the drafts and graffiti left by these literati when they were drinking coffee here.

The murals inside the restaurant have their own characteristics, and the overall feeling is like walking into a gallery, where you can not only edify your sentiment a little, but also enjoy the paintings while tasting delicacy.

Second stop: smoking a hookah in an Egyptian cafe

Cairo Fesavi Cafe (Fishawi's coffee house)

If you want to understand Egypt, you have to go to a cafe. Modern statistics show that there is about one coffee shop for every 250 people in Cairo. For the people of Cairo, the cafe is not only the center of public opinion like some Western clubs, but also the meeting place of three religions and nine streams. The Fesavi Cafe is the oldest and most famous cafe in Cairo. It is located in the famous Hariri Market in the old city of Cairo and has a long history of 238 years. Mahfud M.D., a famous Egyptian writer and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature, was a regular visitor to the cafe.

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Most people come to Fishawi's coff eehouse for the elder. He is Najib Mahfud M.D., the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The cafe is open 24 hours a day, with a constant flow of people, not only locals, but also many admiring tourists. The cafe's "collection": squeaking ceiling fans, dusty mirrors, yellowed photos of celebrities, including the last king of Egypt, Farook.

Here, besides drinking coffee, you can also experience Arab hookah and other exotic amorous feelings. Hookah (Sheesha) is the soul of Egyptian cafes. Many people go to cafes just to take a sip of hookah. The store prepared tobacco and charcoal fire and delivered it to the guests. Only saw the smoking filter open on one side, as long as inhaled, the smoke gurgled through the clear water in the bottom glass bottle, and a sweet taste spread. Egyptian tobacco is mostly sweet and greasy, and Maasil is the most popular flavor, but it is too strong and not too boring.

Third stop: standing up drinking coffee in Italy

Roman Greek Cafe (Antico Caff Greco)

The Greek Cafe is located on Via Condotti near Piazza de Spain. Marble tables, sofa seats, waiters in tuxedos, countless mirrors, the illusion of going back in time makes people feel as if they were in the elegance of 1760. For decades, Greek cafes have become a must in Rome for holidays, and the caramel macchiato here is delicious and attractive. English poets Keats, Byron, Shelley; French writer Stendhal; Italian sculptor Canova; Danish sculptor Dubasson; Norwegian writer Ibsen; Russian writer Gorgory; Polish musician Chopin; French composer Berlioz and Bizi; Hungarian composer Liszt; in addition, German literary masterpiece Goethe's Princess of Tarives was completed here.

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Cafes are social places for Italians, and a lot of news is spread from cafes. Cafes are the first lesson to learn about Italy, but you have to learn to look like a local. Cheerful Italians prefer foreigners who know the rules when it comes to drinking coffee. Generally speaking, espresso is used 24 hours a day, but if you want to order Capucino, it must be before 10:30 in the morning.

This ancient Greek cafe is a deep and slender multi-hall structure. First of all, entering the cafe is for those who come in a hurry and are prepared to stand at the coffee counter for those who are in a hurry and have precious time. The coffee guests lined up to order all kinds of coffee, paid the bill, waited for the coffee to be cooked, stood aside to drink and talked, and then hurried off.

For those who have plenty of time and want to kill time, they will walk into the coffee shop as soon as they enter the coffee shop, either find a sofa or sit around a round glass table. In a moment, a waiter in a black tuxedo will come to order a drink for you. The walls of the hall are red, covered with famous paintings with gold-painted frames, celebrity handwriting and broad mirrors, coupled with the lighting of classical European wall lamps on the walls, making the halls very bright. Customers watch the pedestrians coming and going on the street while drinking coffee, and pedestrians often look at them, unable to tell who is the audience and who is the customer.