SEMINAR: Coimbra, Portugal - 20th and 21st of May 2022
The seminar is the result of a partnership between Café Santa Cruz and the Portuguese Historic Cafés Association (ACH) and it is co-organized with the Historical Cafes Route. It will be attended by Stefano Dominioni - Executive Secretary, Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes, Council of…
The 11th Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe will take place from 5-7 October 2022 in Chania (Crete), Greece.
The 2022 Advisory Forum is organised by the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (EPA) in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Tourism…
Europe was constructed on the basis of centuries of exchanges between people of different backgrounds and beliefs.
The traces of this legacy are still present in the routes that crisscross the continent and take no account of borders or nationalities. The aim of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme is to preserve and…
The story of coffee goes back to the 13th century, when it came out of Ethiopia, then spread to Egypt and Yemen. It reached the Middle East, Turkey, and Persia during the 16th century, and then Europe during the early 17th, though not without controversy. In Venice, some called it the ‘bitter invention of Satan,’…
Cafés, like other catering establishments, were the second home for many Impressionist artists.
The Cultural Routes program was launched by the Council of Europe in 1987. Its objective was to demonstrate, by means of a journey through space and time, how the heritage of the different countries and cultures of Europe contributes to a shared cultural heritage.
In 1651, a young member of an English family active in the Levant trade left Izmir (or Smyrna as it was then known) to travel with his personal assistant to London
In 1651, a young member of an English family active in the Levant trade left Izmir (or Smyrna as it was then known) to travel with his personal assistant to London
We go far back to the early 16th century when coffee’s opponents – including in Venice – called the coffee “Satan’s drink”.
Immediately after its establishment in 1899, the Historic Café Museum became a Viennese artistic meeting place with status. Geniuses such as Gustav Klimt, Peter Altenberg and Adolf Loos were amongst its regulars. Café Museum is a place of inspiration, a coffee house with style. The proximity of the opera house, the Secession Building, the Musikverein…