Café Sports Do Well Here
Café Louvre is located in the
centre of Prague on Národní třída near the
National Theatre. And even though its name refers to France (the café is called after the Parisian museum, Louvre), the furnishings and the overall look of the café reminds us more of Vienna. In addition to excellent coffee, you can
have breakfast there in the morning, but Café Louvre is also made for
lunch or afternoon coffee or tea while playing chess or checking the current news. You can find German and British newspapers there as well. The one thing you will not find there is Wi-Fi. And so, instead of surfing Facebook, you can have an interesting chat with friends and enjoy the atmosphere of the first half of the 20
th century.
A Place Where Kafka and Einstein Used to Go
The café was restored in 1992 after almost 50 years. After February 1948, when the communist party took over the former Czechoslovakia, the entire furnishings of the café were destroyed. However, today there is a
café, a restaurant, a sweetshop with a snooker room, and in the summer, also a
summer terrace. The house in which the café is located was built in 1902 and it was called Palace Louvre, and it was obvious what name the café on the first floor would have. From the very beginning of its existence, famous guests used to go there, such as German writers Otto Pick and Franz Werfel,
Franz Kafka, as well as
Albert Einstein during his Prague professorship.
