Café Restaurant El Hafa
About the place
- Country : Morocco , Tangier
- Address : Tangier, Morocco
- Category : Cultural Centers
- Establishing Date : 1921
- founder : Ba Muhammad
Café Restaurant El Hafa
Overview:
The "Hafa Café" is located in Tangier, Morocco, in a very special place, where dozens of visitors sit in front of the sea and enjoy the sound of seagulls, and the Moroccan view of the Spanish lands; This water divide is the closest point between Africa and Europe.
Visitors drink the Moroccan "Atay" and listen to a mixture of Moroccan, Andalusian and Spanish music, so the "Hafa Café" was the destination for every visitor to the city of Tangier in the far north of Morocco.
Historic overview:
Tourists from all over the world come to visit this café, which is famous for its charming location, and was previously a destination for many novelists and writers who were looking for serenity for creativity and writing.
The historic Hafa café was established in 1921.
The famous Moroccan novelist "Mohamed Choukri" was sitting to write his most famous novel "For Bread Alone", where his memories met here with the city of Tangier.
Here Choukri was sitting with the famous Moroccan poet and novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun, who won the French Goncourt Prize for his novel, "la nuit sacre".
The famous American writer and translator "Paul Bowles" also used to frequent this café, as the city enchanted him with its beauty, so he chose it as his permanent residence.
The place also holds the memories of historical politicians who sat in it, such as Churchill, the most famous prime minister in Britain's history, and Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
"Ba Muhammad" established this historic café, and the city tells of his patience and fatigue in transforming an abandoned place where drunkards and vagrants gathered into an international café that became a destination for tourists from all over the world.
On 5 vertical levels, the café is filled with readers, writers and lovers, looking for calm, and when you wander with your eyes inside the place, you will find books and novels and other pamphlets filled with the inspiration of the place.
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