Antico Caffè Greco

The story

Antico Caffè Greco has served Rome since 1760. Its succession of intimate, art-filled rooms became a meeting place for writers, painters, composers and travellers, among them Goethe, Byron, Keats, Liszt and Wagner.

Why Antico Caffè Greco is iconic

One of Europe’s great surviving literary cafés, where coffee, art and centuries of Grand Tour history still share the same rooms.

Selected by Ernst Aben · Information reviewed July 2026