The Spanish travel blogger signed up from the most beautiful café in the world, the New York Café, Alexia, who viaja_con_alexia shows the most special places in the world on Instagram. In his post, he writes that although everything changes as the years go by, fashion changes, cafes are becoming more modern, but anyone who travels to Europe and is a coffee lover will definitely not miss the more than 120-year-old Budapest café.

“He survived the two world wars in one of Europe’s most impressive cities in an enthusiastic post at the‘ New York Café, ’” and showed with a photo that there are many people here on a gray Sunday morning in November.

“I get stuck at the sight of the unique murals on the ceiling, the Venetian chandeliers, the classic velvet furniture and the marble stairs, it was designed by Ádám Tihany, who created this luxury, ”he writes.

A New York Palace building

One of the most impressive buildings on the Budapest Grand Boulevard, the New York Palace, initially operated as the headquarters of an insurance company. Its history dates back to the 19th century, when Max Aufricht (Arányi Miksa) writer arrived in Budapest. His ambitions ensure that the teacher traveling to Paris soon became a successful lawyer, and where he established the Hungarian network together with the director of the New York Insurance Company – he soon needed a headquarters. The patinated, four-story palace and the ground-floor café inside it were handed over in 1894, and the magnificent New York Café soon became the center of literary and artistic life.: has entered history and Hungarian cultural history as a favorite gathering place for artists, writers and poets

The story of the cafe

Great emphasis was placed in the early years on creating a lavish, spacious interior. The interior, which is divided into several separate spaces, was separated by twisted marble columns. The exterior sculptures of the café, the characteristic fourteen bronze devil fauna Praises the work of Károly Senyey, and they symbolize sensuality, a mocking mood. Can be found here It is also the figure of “El Asmodáj” that proclaims the spirit of coffee and thought to this day, thereby supporting and inspiring incoming artists. Entering the New York Café, history can still be felt today. Many of our famous writers and poets spent their time here, among others in the Budapest café, in the gallery. Paul street boys the story is Ferenc Molnár from the pen. The building has become the home of our famous artists like Mihály Babits, Zsigmond Móricz, Géza Gárdonyi, Frigyes Karinthy, Dezső Kosztolányi, Gyula Illyés, Sándor Weöres.