Gran Café

The Gran Café is in iconic locale for a coffee, hot chocolate, or glass of wine in Zaragoza's beautiful historic district. The café's main claim to fame is its age and interior, a gorgeous relic from its previous days as a jewlery shop. It features the intricate hardwood ceilings that are endemic to Aragon's historical buildings, marble countertops, and a charming atmopshere that seems straight out of a movie about 1930's Paris.

The cafe serves typical Spanish coffeeshop fare: coffee, hot cholocate, churros, breakfasts, beer, wine, juice, and spirits. It's a wonderful place to recharge

It is one of my favourite places in Zaragoza. Its location is in a modernist building which at first was a jeweller’s. The café is an authentic jewel, its decoration will take you to the XIX century.

It is simply exquisite: panelling, wood and high quality materials. The mirrors play an important role, and you will see why… You can have a good cup of coffee, teas and excellent pastries at reasonable prices.

It is in Alfonso I Street, which means, in the heart of the city. You can have a good time here, I guarantee it.

At the end of the XIX century there was the Aladrén jewellery shop in the middle of Alfonso I Street. A few years ago, it closed and became a café, which preserves the large part of its fabulous decoration, however not the furniture, which in part is in an antique shop in the neighbouring Candalija Street.

Taking a coffee in the interior room or in what was the office, is a trip to Zaragoza of 1900, from which, Alfonso I Street is the best preserved stage. A city which has taken off thanks to the arrival of the train, industrialisation…

The Aladrén family, owners of the best jewellers