Established in 1945, Havana Cafe (Arabic: مَقْهًى الْهَافَانَا, romanized: Maqhan al-Hāfānā) is a noted cafe situated in the al Bahsa Area in Damascus City, Syria. During the modern period the cafe became well known for its elite class of visitors, including politicians, high-ranking military officers, poets, artists, authors and journalists, in addition to a number of political refugees. The cafe is sometimes referred to as the birthplace of novels, poems, political conspiracies and even coups.

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (December 2009)

Al Sharq Al Awsat Newspaper (Ar)

33°30′52.6″N 36°17′42.3″E

This article about a building or structure in Syria is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e