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After more than a year closed, the emblematic Café Moderno of Pontevedra reopened its doors last week by the hand of the hotel businessman Manuel Arís, who with his wife has Los Castellanos, a place near the Plaza de San José. “I have only a few years left to retire and it’s a challenge, why not take it on,” Arís explained to La Voz de Galicia.
The Café Moderno is located in the most important art nouveau and modernist building in the city that bears the name of the historic cafeteria located on the first floor of the building. It is currently the headquarters of one of Afundación’s socio-cultural centers in Pontevedra.
The Café Moderno during most of the 20th century was a literary and artistic center where important politicians, writers and intellectuals such as Castelao, Alexandre Bóveda, Ramón Cabanillas or García Lorca met in gatherings, according to the Diario de Pontevedra.
The menu of Café Moderno, which will maintain its historical decoration (the murals on its walls and its characteristic wooden chairs and tables), “will be similar to that of Los Castellanos, with a menu of the day at twelve euros and a single dish at ten”, Arís assures in declarations collected by La Voz de Galicia.
The historic cafeteria will be open from eight in the morning to eleven at night from Monday to Saturday.
