The Historian · Rui · Lisbon
Café Martinho da Arcada
Pessoa wrote and drank here. His table is still kept. The café outlived the poet and the monarchy both.
Lisbon's oldest café, open since 1782 under the arcades of Praça do Comércio — Fernando Pessoa's regular table.
— Rui, The Historian
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