The first cafès in Europe
In 1720 Caffè Florian was born in Venice just before Caffè Aurora (1723). In 1760 Caffè Greco was born in Rome, as in 1733 Caffè Giuli was opened in Florence. From a census in 1763 cafés turned out to be the impressive number of 218 just in Venice. These cafés became soon  the finer meeting points where to talk of culture and art in the XVIII century. At Caffè Florian in Venice you could meet and have a talk with famous intellectual people such as Byron, Rousseau and Silvio Pellico, as at Procope in Paris you could see d’Alambert and Voltaire passing by. At the end we should properly remember that in 1764, in Milan; the intellectual Pietro Verri founded the famous magazine “Il Caffè” to awake the sleeping Italian culture…

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