Café Gijón
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The Café Gijón (also Gran Café de Gijón ) is a coffee house on the street Paseo de Recoletos 21 in Madrid . After modest beginnings as a promenade café (1888), it developed into a meeting place for artists and intellectuals, especially after the Spanish Civil War. His first known customers included José Canalejas , Don Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Benito Pérez Galdós and Valle-Inclán .
Later, Federico García Lorca was often seen as a guest on the terrace, often in the company of the torero Ignacio Sánchez Mejías , but also the successful actress Celia Gámez . At the end of the civil war, during the Battle of Madrid, Republican militiamen gathered here.
After the war, José García Nieto , Pedro de Lorenzo , Rafael Romero , Jesús Juan Garcés , Eugenio Mediano Flórez , Salvador Pérez Valiente and Camilo José Cela met here at the regular tables of artists and writers ( tertulias ) .
Other famous customers of this bar were Hollywood stars Ava Gardner , Orson Welles , Joseph Cotten and Truman Capote .
In 1949, the young actor Fernando Fernán Gómez took the initiative to create a literary prize under the name of the café.
Tertulias
- La tertulia de los poetas
- La juventud Creadora
- La Tertulia de Escritores y Lectores .
literature
- José Bárcena: Aquellos bohemios del Café Gijón. Huerga y Fierro, Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-8374-448-1 ( Ensayo 47).
- Mariano Rodríguez Tudela and others: Café Gijón. 100 years of history. Nombres, vidas, amores y muertes. Kaydeda Ediciones, Madrid 1988, ISBN 84-86879-06-X .
- Francisco Umbral : La noche que llegué al Café Gijón. Ediciones Destino, Barcelona 1980, ISBN 84-233-1076-0 ( Destinolibro 112), on the coffee house in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Manuel Vicent: Del Café Gijón a Ítaca. Descubrimiento del Mediterráneo como mar interior. El País et al., Madrid 1994, ISBN 84-03-59476-3 .
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Coordinates: 40 ° 25 ′ 20.1 " N , 3 ° 41 ′ 32.5" W.