Café Nicola

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The Café Nicola in Lisbon

The Café Nicola is a café in the Portuguese capital Lisbon . It is located in the inner-city square of Praça D. Pedro IV , better known as Rossio . It also offers dishes .

Today's Nicola Cafés emerged from the café .

At the beginning of the 20th century in particular, a number of branches of the same name for Café Nicola were opened in Portuguese cities, similar to Café A Brasileira . For example, the Café Nicola in the university town of Coimbra and the one in the seaside resort of Figueira da Foz were known . Thirteen old and new Nicola cafés and kiosks still exist today, including the one in Coimbra (as of July 2016), but most of them are not owned by the Nicola coffee maker.

history

Café Nicola was founded in 1787 by an Italian named Nicola or Nicolau Breteiro. It was then taken over by the Portuguese José Pedro Silva, who kept the name of the café. The most famous regular guest was the poet Manoel Maria de Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805). Silva, the owner of Café Nicola, was the most important supporter of the impoverished and sick Bocage.

Even in later years the café remained a meeting place for writers, journalists and politicians. It got its current appearance in 1935 when it was rebuilt in Art Deco style according to plans by the architect Raul Tojal . Since then, several oil paintings by the painter Fernando dos Santos (1892–1965) show scenes from the life of Bocage.

The Café Nicola is now one of the attractions for tourists.

Web links

Commons : Café Nicola (Lisbon)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Nicola company , German version on the official company website, accessed on July 19, 2016
  2. ^ List of Nicola cafes in Portugal from the Portuguese company search engine www.portugalio.com, accessed on July 19, 2016
  3. ^ Lydia Hohenberger , Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal. 2nd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, page 114 ISBN 978-3-7701-7658-8
  4. ↑ a b Article on Café Nicola on www.visitportugal.com, accessed on July 19, 2016
  5. ↑ Entry on Café Nicola in the online portal of the Marco Polo Travel Guide , accessed on July 19, 2016
  6. ^ Entry by Café Nicola on the tourism website TripAdvisor , accessed on July 19, 2016

Coordinates: 38 ° 42 ′ 47.4 "  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 23.1"  W.