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Caffè Florian in Venice: a sad 300th anniversary for the oldest coffee house in the world

In an empty city, the bar risks not reopening for Covid

The historic Caffè Florian, in Piazza San Marco in Venice, has just turned 300 years old (29 December 1720 - 29 December 2020). But it is a bitter birthday marked by the closure, like all the clubs in the square, due to the tourist crisis caused by Covid. A party "in the silence and desolation of a magnificent and ghostly Venice", said the CEO of Florian Marco Paolini ."The current crisis obviously...

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Venezia, VE, Italia, 01/04/2021 10:30
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