New York Café Budapest - Global Citizenship Summer School (sitios de interés)
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Hungarian writers, journalists and artists such as Ferenc Molnár, Kálmán Mikszáth, Endre Ady, Dezső Kosztolányi, Gyula Krúdy and Zsigmond Móricz made the New York Cafe famous. It came to be a vital meeting place for intellectual and literary life in the Budapest of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Commissioned in 1894 by the New York Insurance Company, the palace on the Erzsébet körút shows a combination of various styles inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
The beautiful and elegant café, located on the ground floor o fthe building, quickly became popular amongst writers, poets, and journalists. The founders of the Hungarian literary magazine Nyugat that gave its name to a whole epoch of Hungarian literature held regular meetings at the café.
This high time of literatue and art came to a halt in 1914. A short revival followed in the 1930s, only to be interrupted again by the Second World War. The Palace was heavily bombed towards the end of the war. It reopened during the communist regime in 1954, but uprisings in 1956 destroyet it once again.
Finally, in 2006 the Boscolo Group revived the palace and together with a luxury hotel the café was reconstructed and went into business again.
Commissioned in 1894 by the New York Insurance Company, the palace on the Erzsébet körút shows a combination of various styles inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
The beautiful and elegant café, located on the ground floor o fthe building, quickly became popular amongst writers, poets, and journalists. The founders of the Hungarian literary magazine Nyugat that gave its name to a whole epoch of Hungarian literature held regular meetings at the café.
This high time of literatue and art came to a halt in 1914. A short revival followed in the 1930s, only to be interrupted again by the Second World War. The Palace was heavily bombed towards the end of the war. It reopened during the communist regime in 1954, but uprisings in 1956 destroyet it once again.
Finally, in 2006 the Boscolo Group revived the palace and together with a luxury hotel the café was reconstructed and went into business again.