Pictures of George Orwell's Spain
Cafe Moka (Barcelona)
Photo taken by Tore Mentyjaervi in August 2007



Cafe Moka in Barcelona (August 2007)


"Next door to the P.O.U.M. building there was a café with a hotel above it, called the Café Moka. The day before twenty or thirty armed Civil Guards had entered the café and then, when the fighting started, had suddenly seized the building and barricaded themselves in. Presumably they had been ordered to seize the café as a preliminary to attacking the P.O.U.M. offices later."

- Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 10