Caffรจ Florian, the world’s oldest Caffe, celebrates its 300th anniversary. The landmark Venetian bar, nestled amid the arcades of the central Piazza S. Marco, has been serving locals and visitors to the lagoon city for 3 centuries.
Caffรจ Florian has been in business ever since. Over the centuries this elegant bar has welcomed countless cultural figures such as Casanova, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Charlie Chaplin, and Andy Warhol, as well hundreds of international politicians and modern-day celebrities. Caffรจ Florian’s richly decorated rooms feature artwork by important 19th-century artists such as Goldoni, while the bar celebrated its 200th anniversary in 1920 by opening a new room adorned in the art nouveau style.
The second-oldest coffee house in Italy is Rome’sย Caffรจ Grecoย which was founded in 1760, forty years after Caffรจ Florian.
