JUST A LITTLE OF HISTORY

In 1683, it was open the first Viennese coffee house. The legend tells in that year the Turks, forced to abandon the siege in Vienna, during the flight, they left back quite a lot sacks of coffee. By these sacks the love of the Austrians was born for this product. Not by chance, the Viennese coffee preparation uses a method very similar to the Turkish one: it is different only because it is filtered.

Coffee was very considered during the Enlightenment movement: all the important followers of the Enlightenment were drinkers of coffee (it seems that Voltaire drank about thirty cups of it a day), to be awake and prepared to the debate. To the coffee, an illustrious group of Lombard followers of the Enlightenment like the brothers Pietro and Alessandro Verri, Cesare Beccaria and other members of the "Accademia dei Pugni” entitled the first Italian magazine. On the pages of" Il Caffè", they deal with some matters of various kind: from the sciences to the arts, to the social life.

The Greek Coffee is not a particular kind of coffee. It was one of the fulcrums in the artistic Rome of end ‘700 and the beginning of ‘800. Every foreign artist came up to there to ask his own consecration.

At the time of the French Revolution, the Coffee houses were places of meeting where they talked above all of politics, and where the revolutionaries developed projects and proposals. The French Coffee houses were defined "the spoken press of the Revolution", and every house distinguished a political tendency. The ideas of a man were, in fact, judged according to the Coffee house that he frequented.