Enjoy the colonial Curitiba cafes and tearooms
Going to Brazil you should visit the world known — Curitiba cafes and tearooms with a long history of flavour and fame. Curitiba is situated about 250 miles southwest of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is 3000 feet above sea level. The capital city of the state of Parana is over 300 years old and is better known for gold mining. Today, Curitiba cafes and tearooms reap gold in a different way!
Initially a tea producing town, Curitiba first became a coffee producer in the 1930s. In 1960s, the city accounted for 60 percent of Brazil’s yield and a third of the world’s coffee production. Curitiba’s coffee grew so famous that Parisian and Buenos Aires’ cafes would often have posters that boasted that they only served coffee from Parana.
This made Parana very prosperous but soon Brazil levied export taxes on coffee and introduced multiple foreign exchange rates which included a tax on the bean’s exports. With the money collected as tax, the government initiated industrialization, which was taking place in different parts of Parana. Soon, coffee took a backseat in whole scheme of things.
In time, soybeans, wheat, corn, beans, rice and sugar took the place of coffee indusrty. These became the chief money pullers for the residents as well the farmers of Parana. The boom in the agro products also brought in more people to Parana. In 1940, the population of Paranï¿ was only 1.2 million, over 2.7 million people immigrated here over the next 25 years. This mass settlement was linked can be attributed to rise in the agricultural status of Parana.
Since then economy of Modern-day Paraná has returned to it's root, coffee production. A splurge in visits by tourists to this part of the world, has given rise to a swarm of old-world cafés and tearooms of Curitiba, many of which you can find on the Rua das Flores. The Curitiba cafes and tearooms provide a rendezvous point to people who come here in joy and sorrow to discuss their problems and to share their happiness.
These Curitiba cafes and tea rooms opened way back in the 1920s when elders came here often. And even today, these cafes haven’t changed either in style and clientele. Some of these popular Curitiba cafes and tearooms are the Confeitaria Schaffer, the Confeitaria das Famílias and the Confeitaria Cometa. At each of these cafes, you can bet you’ll get the best of coffee.
When you’re in the midst of exploring the history of the city, you can get some refreshment on a good high tea in a very good ambience at No Kafe Fest at Rua Claudino dos Santos 142. And if you’re hungry for some high class confectionery, you’ll have to trek all the way to the Bosque João Paulo II where you can enjoy food and drink at the superb Polish tea room, the Kawiarnia Krakowiak. If you wake up early and would like to explore the city in the morning than you can have a quick coffee or snack before dawn, at Rua 24 Horas.
No matter where you go in Curitiba, you’ll never be far away from Curitiba cafes and tearooms. And since the whole city is so scenic and clean, people tend to drink more coffee here and enjoy it too! Nature has blessed the place with al its beauty, you will be enthralled to see lots of greenery, different kinds of trees, auromatic flowers and plants here.
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