Two cafés, one culture (places of “Polo Bamba” and the “Tupi-Nambá”: The San Roman Brothers)

Abstract

From the experience of two Spanish immigrants, who maintained along many years durings the turn of the nineteenth through the twentieth century, two cafés in which would happen a significant part of the cultural life of Montevideo, this essay examines the cultural dimensio of those gatherings and the café itself beyond the anecdotes that we grew familiar to thanks to the chronicles of that time.