Café A Brasileira (Braga)

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The Café A Brasileira is a cafe in the northern Portuguese city of Braga . It is located at Largo Barão de São Martinho , number 17, in the historic old town. The Café A Brasileira Braga is today, just like the rest of the Portuguese cafes same name, as a tourist attraction, especially by its charm as a coffee house of the outgoing Belle Époque .

history

At Café A Brasileira in Braga

The pharmacist Adriano Soares Teles do Vale , who comes from Alvarenga in northern Portugal and works in Porto , grandfather of the filmmaker Luís Galvão Teles , had already emigrated to Brazil as a young man, where he had become rich as a trader and coffee producer at the end of the 19th century. When his wife fell ill, he returned with her to Porto in 1903, where she died a little later. Here he turned to creating points of sale for his Brazilian coffee, which he called Casa Brasileira (Brazilian House) or A Brasileira (The Brazilian Woman).

Teles opened its first sales point in 1903 with what is now Café A Brasileira in Porto. Lisbon, Coimbra, Aveiro and Seville in Spain followed. The restaurant in Braga opened its doors on March 17, 1907. After the Café Vianna , which opened in 1871, it is now the second oldest café in town.

Web links

Commons : Café A Brasileira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of Café A Brasileira in Braga on the Lonely Planet travel guide website , accessed on April 24, 2016
  2. ^ Entry from Café A Brasileira in Braga at www.visitportugal.com, accessed on April 24, 2016
  3. ^ Statements by Luís Galvão Teles in the documentary Lisboa vista do Rio , director: Ivan Lins, 2013, released on DVD by NOS in Portugal
  4. ↑ Information on Teles' company in the entry for Café A Brasileira in Porto (under Cronologia ), Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on April 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Article of March 31, 2014 on the oldest cafés in Braga on the website of the regional newspaper Correio do Minho , accessed on April 24, 2016

Coordinates: 41 ° 33 ′ 3 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 24"  W.