The Historic Cafés Route of the Council of Europe

Posted on by Babak Fakhamzadeh

The Council of Europe maintains some 40 thematic routes throughout Europe. One of them is the Historic Cafés Route, of which close to 100 European cafés are a member.

Now, these cafés, from Denmark to Malta, and a good dozen other countries, can be visited on Placecloud.

All viewpoints were created with the help of AI; illustrations were created with Midjourney, the text, the script, was put together with the help of ChatGPT, and the narration was done by a synthetic voice, courtesy of ElevenLabs.

If you’re interested, read up more on the background and process. Or, jump to the map with all viewpoints in this collection.

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