It is not just taste, coffee in Italy is tradition, an emblem of socialisation and part of our history. In the peninsula you can find over a hundred historical cafés, where the likes of D’Annunzio, Hemingway, Montale and Joyce loved to enjoy a good coffee. But not only that, in a city of art like Venice, famous artists such as Canaletto also passed through the most famous cafés, and many continue to pass through during the days of the Biennale. In Turin, it happened that the Count of Cavour or Italian royalty met at the café.
In Naples, for example, the most famous café is still extraordinarily frescoed and opens onto Piazza Plebiscito, one of the landmarks of the Neapolitan capital.
Our cities, then, are the setting for real gems, where coffee accompanies the course of histor
Some of the most iconic
- Caffè Al Bicerin, Turin
- Caffè Gambrinus, Naples
- Caffè Greco, Rome
- Caffè Meletti, Ascoli
- Caffe Pedrocchi, Padua
- Caffe Florian, Venezia
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