The Gran Café de París was a

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building located in the Plaza de la Campana in

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. Located on the corner of O'Donnell with la Campana, the Gran Café de París was a reference in the Sevillian social life during the first decades of the 20th century.

History

Built by Aníbal González between 1904 and 1906 commissioned by Manuel Suárez, full of rooms of large mirrors and chairs with red upholstery. There were arguing supporters of

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, the football derby in the city. There were also uncountable meetings for discuss the

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, were held the masquerade dances of the Carnivals and was made the last stop before it raised the curtain of the Teatro San Fernando. During the

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the Gran Café de París was renamed as ''Café de Roma'' to avoid confusion with the café of Avenue de l'Opéra in

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. By then the building had undergone several reforms that had reduced it much of the splendor of its beginnings. With the name retrieved in the 1940s, it will not last however much the Café Paris as for the next decade did not exist. The local of the ground floor of the modernisme building was then occupied by a department store, "La Importadora", a kind of bazaar where it could found of all, something new for the time. The Café París was finally demolished. In its place stands a

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."Gran Café París", El Pasado de Sevilla
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gran Cafe de Paris Demolished buildings and structures in Seville Buildings and structures completed in 1906 Modernisme architecture Coffeehouses and cafés in Spain Buildings and structures demolished in the 1970s 1906 establishments in Spain 20th-century disestablishments in Spain