11 COFFEE: Café Central (Taste of Vienna Tour)
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At one of the capital’s most iconic coffee houses, this episode tracks coffee as it spreads across Europe over the past 400 years or so. We then narrow our focus to the phenomenon of the Viennese coffee house itself: a unique cultural institution nearly synonymous with the art, philosophy, and literature of the fin-de-siècle. A map of the entire route can be found at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/by9ta3z Find me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter—I love to hear from listeners! This content is free because of donations from users like you. If you’d like to donate, head to https://ko-fi.com/gretlguides or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/GretlGuides. Thank you!
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