The Café de Paris was a famous bar on Via Veneto, one of the best known and most expensive streets in Rome, Italy.
[1] The bar was immortalised in 1960 in the movie La Dolce Vita by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, starring Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée and Marcello Mastroianni who played a "paparazzo" riding his Vespa in search of celebrities.
[2] During the heady days in the 1960s, the café was one of the preferred watering holes of starlets, residual nobility, nouveau riche, and sultans.
[11] The bar re-opened in November 2011 and was managed by the National Agency for the Administration and Allocation of Confiscated Properties (Agenzia nazionale per l'amministrazione e la destinazione dei beni confiscati).
"The new administrators wanted the cafe to offer products that are not only good but just", said Father Luigi Ciotti the president of Libera.