Overlooking the Latomie dei Cappuccini, one of Sicily’s oldest limestone quarries, the Grand Hotel was founded in 1862 as the result of the romantic union...

A sweet gem in the heart of Genoa's historic centre, Pasticceria Klainguti was founded in 1828 by four brothers from Engadine who, while travelling towards...

Founded in 1911 by the Guichardaz family in the heart of Courmayeur, the Caffè della Posta quickly became the village's elegant drawing room, a gathering...

Attended by painters, fashion designers, industrialists, actors, and intellectuals of the elegant Milan from Brera, the Trattoria Torre di Pisa has remained unchanged since its...

For over a hundred years it has been making fettuccine famous throughout the world: it’s the Il Vero Alfredo restaurant in Rome, where the sense...

Founded in 1897 as "Birreria Reininghaus" by two German
brothers, the pub owes its name to the waiters in red jackets: the Florentines, finding it...

In 1904, mayor and pharmacist Angelo Rainusso opened the doors to what would become far more than just a café: Bar Colombo, a timeless treasure...

Built in 1899 as a private villa, the Pensione America is one of the first residences in Forte dei Marmi, a symbol of the emergence of...

A exquisite Art Nouveau hotel by the sea in the old part of the city, the island of Ortigia, it embodies the history of luxury...

A piece of history and an icon of wellness. A magical and evocative place, founded almost a century ago, which preserves its antique furniture and...

Starting from the thirties, the genuine cappuccino has always been served at the Caffè Reggio, the most famous and oldest Greenwich Village haunt frequented by...

The Malinverno family has held the keys to this historical place since 1969, when Elda and Giuseppe took charge. Over time, their children Franco and...

An important collection of antique weapons and copper objects serves as the backdrop to this place, which is still managed by one of the few...

In the early eighteenth century it was the inn “with the sign of the turtledoves”, as Elio Zorzi says in his Osterie veneziane, and the...

It was from a cloth merchant that, in what was then called 'Via dei lanaioli' and is now Via dei Tavolini, Pietro Paoli rented a...

A journey back in time among 1920s counters, works of art and ancient skylights. There is all the charm of Libertystyle in the Caffè...

The hotel’s history began in 1848 as an inn, the Gran Locanda Della Minerva, in a 14th-century building that was originally part of the monastery...

It was the first hotel on the splendid Via Partenope, and immediately became a favourite destination for the powerful and wealthy, including King Farouk of...

A perfectly intact Liberty-style masterpiece by the architect Sommaruga, it is set in a park on the Colle Campigli, with views over the lakes all...

From the Medici to Napoleon, by way of the Savoys and presidents of the Italian Republic: the whole history of Italy is written in the...

Time takes its time in the “City of 44 Churches”. Also at the Taverna Rovita we can relish the details and let our eyes wander...

The last crotto in Como, it bears witness to the timehonoured tradition in which natural cavities in the mountains were used to preserve food and...

Almost nothing has changed since wine and salt were sold here, along with minestrone and barbecued meat sold by weight. The welcoming fire, or fogolâr,...

Entering the Hotel Pensione Accademia in Venice is like returning to the splendours of the Serenissima. The Villa Maravege still preserves traces of its origins...

Founded in 1830 as a “hotel with livery” a stone's throw from Porta Palazzo (Europe's largest open-air food market), the establishment became a natural crossroads...

A story that started with panettoni on the royal banqueting tables of the Savoys, and on that of the hero Garibaldi, later blended into the...

Mozart stayed here in 1770, when he went to the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona, aged thirteen, for his first concert in Italy. While on an...

The original documents date back to August 29, 1928: since then, Café Carducci in Verona has been a landmark for those seeking conviviality, excellent food,...

The original documents date back to August 29, 1928: since then, Café Carducci in Verona has been a landmark for those seeking conviviality, excellent food,...

In his Italian diaries, Hermann Hesse writes about how he enjoyed his cup of coffee at a table in the sun, in 1913. It is...

Adored by writers, artists and politicians, and a monument to authentic pizza, it started life in the early nineteenth century as “Le stanze di piazza...

From here, King Humbert I watched a fireworks display on the Piazzale Michelangelo in 1890. And here D.H. Lawrence wrote parts of his “Lady Chatterley’s...

Originally the “Hotel De Londres” in honour of the English guests who frequented the Gran Paradiso and Italianised to “Miramonti” under Fascism, in 1941 it...

The name came in the eighteenth century from the daily visits of twelve traders from nearby Piazza delle Erbe. The ancient rooms with their frescoed...

In 1877, Tchaikovsky composed the first three movements of his Fourth Symphony in room 106, and D’Annunzio, who was almost a habitué when in financial...

A grand “bottega da caffè” in 1750 on the most beautiful corner of St Mark’s Square, facing the Ducal Basilica. Elegant and renowned, its fortunes...

Hemingway said that this was ‘the best hotel in a city of great hotels’ and here he thought up and wrote most of his Across...

Caffè Florian opened in 1720: with its over 300 years’ history, it is the oldest coffee house to have maintained its characteristics since the beginning....

One of the oldest hotels in Italy. When it was still a tavern in the thirteenth century, the Doges of Venice would stop on their...

A charming example of nineteenth-century Venetian inns, for three months in 1877 it was home to John Ruskin, author of “The Stones of Venice”. In...

The high-society restaurant next to the “La Fenice” opera house, this was once the café for the theatres, of which there were another four nearby....

Caffetteria ottocentesca, poi Confetteria con liquoreria e “Fornitrice della Real Casa Savoia”, Barberis è considerata il tempio della dolcezza di Valenza, storico punto d’incontro delle...

Napoleon came here as commander of the Armée d’Italie at the end of May 1796, and sent the Austrians packing beyond the Mincio. In 1848...

Opened by descendants of the Potepan, the Viennese liquor makers, it has lost none of its late-nineteenth-century “bottega da vino” atmosphere, where drinking is a...

Suban is the most typical trattoria of Trieste, still run by the sixth generation of the same family who founded it in 1865. A visit...

Set up by the master-confectioners Stratta and Reina, the café is the place to go for sweets and dragées, Giandiuotti and pralines, marrons glacés and...

The Grand Hotel Sitea, founded in 1925, stands as an icon of hospitality in Turin for nearly a century. Managed by four generations of the...

In the nineteenth century, stagecoaches would leave from just outside this trattoria, with a daily service to Liguria, and to the port of Savona in...

The historic Pfafisch Pastry Shop was inaugurated in 1915 by the famous master pastry chef of Bavarian origin, Gustavo Pfafisch, born in 1887 in Fossano...

A counter in Numidia onyx with bronze decorations, a woodand- leather coffered ceiling, walls with mirrors and panelling, carved-wood decorations with powder gilding, and a...

Its rooms have hosted illustrious figures such as Count Cavour, Casanova, Mozart, Balzac, and Nietzsche, becoming a setting for encounters and inspirations that helped shape...

Coffee, chocolate and cream, all served with the most wonderful paraphernalia that has become an institution:
the “bicerin”; a mouth-watering tradition in Turin, first saw...

Ferdinando Baratti and Edoardo Milano, opened a small shop in Via di Dora Grossa (now Via Garibaldi) in 1858. In 1875, they moved to the...

Renovated and now larger than the nineteenth century original, it still contains period memorabilia and furnishings and windows from the 1920s and ‘30s. In the...

A fairytale palace created by five patriot brothers at the dawn of the Kingdom of Italy, this was the hotel of European aristocracy. In 1870...

Created by Antonino Ercolano, who abandoned his vocation to become a priest but kept his nickname “parrucchiano” (parish priest) for the rest of his life,...

For over a hundred years in the central Piazza Tasso, and one of the great tourist venues in Sorrento, it was mentioned as early as...

Set up by the Tramontano family among the aristocratic villas on the sea – one the birthplace of Torquato Tasso – its guests have included...

Dazzled by Christianity, Wagner decided to conclude his Parsifal here. Guests include Margherita of Savoy in 1883, King Vittorio Emanuele III, the Empress of Austria...

A former eighteenth-century residence built on the ruins of the villa of Emperor Augustus’ adoptive son. The poet Lamartine stayed here in 1820, as did...

Ezra Pound, who loved Sirmione, came here in 1920.
D’Annunzio would arrive with his chauffeur from the Vittoriale for a coffee at sunset. Carducci would pass...

One of the most ancient hotels in the Garda peninsula, which holds the Italian record of the most historical places with reference to the territory....

Three shops, all original. The 1840 pastry-shop, with its painted furniture, is in Caruggio XXV Aprile, Sestri Levante; the 1900 one, with shellac-varnished pitch-pine furniture,...

Started up in Napoleonic times by Swiss confectioners and run by the same family since 1934, this is the keeper of Sarzana’s historic art of...

A white building frescoed with trompe l’oeil and floral decorations; halls and restaurant with exquisite furnishings, marbles, stuccoes and frescoes. Beautifully restored, with gardens overlooking...

A majestic Liberty-style façade overlooking the sea, with a wonderful park and the first heated sea-water swimming pool, designed by the Architect Gio Ponti. Founded...

In a setting of stunning beauty, the only Italian hotel at the Great St Bernard Pass is a veritable symbol of Alpine hospitality. The warm...

Twelve generations, as shown by a contract of 1702 now in the parish archives. An inn on the age-old “Salt Road” that until the eighteenth...

Originally the “Gran Caffè”, in 1890 was renovated by Antonio Curri in the Liberty style, with splendid frescoes and paintings by the greatest artists of...

In 1515, the Osteria was already an institution when the battle of Marignano was fought close by, paving the way for the French occupation of...

On 5 January 1896, when Giuseppe Roletti opened his pastry shop (whose biscuits are still famous today), he had a well-rounded education: in the official...

A masterpiece of Neapolitan Baroque, it was originally a climatic convalescent home for Jesuits. A fairy-tale world of aristocratic elegance, the former cloisters have been...

Set in the beautiful town hall in the heart of the ancient Byzantine town, it has been recently restored, losing none of its classic appeal,...

Mascagni, Puccini and Verdi stayed here, for the hotel and the Teatro dell’Opera were linked by a passageway, which now goes through the garden. A...

A legend in the creation of “bucatini all’amatriciana” it was set up as a trattoria in the year Rome joined the Kingdom of Italy.
It...

The Restaurant Massimo d'Azeglio is amongst the oldest restaurants in Rome, originating from a tavern in Piazza Esquilino, which opened for the Jubilee of 1600....

Once a tavern frequented by ‘vaccinari’ (butchers) from the old slaughterhouse of Rome, the famous ‘coda alla vaccinara’ (oxtail) was created here by great-grandmother Ferminia....

Intellectual Rome has just celebrated two hundred and fifty years of life here, in the renowned ‘omnibus’ room loved by Liszt, Bizet, Wagner, Goethe, Casanova,...

Despite the 27 bombing raids that devastated Recco during the Second World War, it still contains the original ancient pink building and the little room...

A tavern on the inland route, where people went to play morra and to drink. The first patrons were the commanders of ships, from Camogli,...

A luxury Liberty-style complex on the sea, it was the legendary Kursaal that became Italy’s first casino in 1902. The façades, ornamentation and halls all...

Seven generations. As early as 1760, the Register of Hoteliers in the Duchy of Lucca recorded that Erasmo Marcucci served fried fish from the Serchio...

It is a monument of Italian culture, located in the 15th-century Palazzo Agostini, along the Lungarno. Its walls are covered with glorious memories of its...

The oldest part of this hotel in Pisa takes us all the way back to 1050, and its origins are lost in the mists of...

A legendary Liberty-style villa overlooking the sea, with 27 exquisitely furnished rooms, it has preserved the original hall with columns, stuccoes and many Art Nouveau...

Vaulted ceilings frescoed by a pupil of Brugnoli, adorned with Swiss and Savoy crests, Liberty-style furniture in solid walnut, with marble and glass all from...

A splendid example of the Liberty style, still with its original early-twentieth-century floral-motif counter, floors, ceiling and even lighting. The founder, Enrico Vigoni, created the...

A fairy-tale Liberty-style masterpiece by the architect Ernesto Basile. The hall frescoed by E. De Maria Von Bergler is a dream, as are the dining...

Here Wagner completed his Parsifal in 1882 and Renoir came to paint his portrait. Prime Minister Crispi gave lectures on political science and Guy de...

During an epidemic in Palermo in the early twentieth century, patrons noticed the restorative powers of an excellent consom-mé. The trattoria that made it became...

In 1834, Salvatore Alaimo transformed a deconsecrated chapel in the heart of Palermo into the city's first focacceria. From the very beginning, it was a...

A delightful Liberty-style building, this is one of Italy’s last railway taverns, and it elegantly preserves its original early-twentieth-century interiors, furnishings and windows, together with...

The stunning creation of Antonio Pedrocchi and of the Venetian architect Jappelli, it has all the majesty of a temple, with its magical Greek, Roman,...

A historic hotel and staging post on the frontier of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, it is still run by the fifth generation of...

A very old inn on the border of the “Kingdom of the Two Sicilies”, it was given the name of Granaro del Monte in honour...

A monument to pizza and Neapolitan recipes, it is now run by the fourth generation since it was set up by Don Umberto. Its lovely...

The brainchild of Isidoro Odin, a Piedmontese confectioner and his wife Onorina Gay, this workshop has given life to many confectioners’ shops in the literary...

Originally the “Gran Caffè”, in 1890 was renovated by Antonio Curri in the Liberty style, with splendid frescoes and paintings by the greatest artists of...

Originally the “Osteria Scudo di Francia”, it is an illustrious survivor of a hundred taverns that were once dotted all over Verona, where corporations and...

Founded by Donna Emilia in 1919 with a charming location on the sea and in front of Castel dell’Ovo, La Bersagliera is one of the...

When Caravaggio left this famous tavern in the port of Naples, after dinner on 24 October 1609, he was attacked and scarred. Giambattista Basile, author...

This enchanting, luxurious café-restaurant pastry in the center of the ancient town is in an eclectic-Liberty style, with a romantic balcony overlooking the Valdichiana. The...

When the canal in front was covered over in the early twentieth century, it was created as a tavern in a typical Venetian cavàna, or...

A majestic masterpiece of Liberty design, it has preserved its façade, the historic porter’s lodge, the splendid hall of arches and the great Michelangelo hall...

Set up by Ferruccio Biondi Santi, the “inventor” of Brunello, and affectionately nicknamed “Florian di Montalcino”, for over a century it has been where the...

Overlooking Lake Como and just next to the sumptuous Villa Carlotta, in an authentic “Liberty” Art Nouveau style, the hotel was originally a luxurious stop...

Created in the palazzo of Senator Isacco Maurogonato Pesaro, a friend and collaborator of Manin in the government of the Republic of Venice, it was...

Established in 1867 during the period of the Belle Epoque, within the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Savini has had and still maintains its significance in...

A fairytale chalet inspired by the Vienna Secession, In the nineteenth it was an inn recolled by the poet Robert Browning, constructed over a sixteenth-century...

In 1929, it introduced pizza and Neapolitan cuisine to Milan, attracting even D’Annunzio and Mascagni. The restaurant was discovered by the world of the theatre...

Since its opening in 1927, it has been recognized as one of Europe’s most prestigious luxury hotels with a reputation for the highest standards of...

One of the boarding houses around St Mark’s Square in the nineteenth century and in the same family for over fifty years, this graceful building...

In the 1930s the splendid sixteenth-century former home of the Marcello family of doges became a hotel reserved for the diplomatic corps in the Serenissima,...

It started out as the "Bottiglieria del Leone," in the splendid "Venetian House" in Piazza San Babila. The subsequent creation, in addition to the Bitter...

Between the wars, Francesco Saverio Nitti, prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy, often used to come down with his family and soon became a...

During their stay at Villa Il Sorito in Sorrento from 1924 to ’32, the writer Maxim Gorky and his friend Vladislav Khodasevich, the greatest Russian...

Pasticceria Cucchi is one of Milan's Historical Places, an iconic place that has spanned decades, accompanying generations of customers who, over time, have become part...

Now in its fourth generation, the oldest restaurant in Siena was opened by Senno Senni in the famous Piazza del Campo, right opposite the Mangia...

With its ancestor Caffè Campari, it is a symbol of Milanese culture between the Duomo and the Galleria, where Verdi and Boito, Puccini, Illica and...

Opened in Via Due Macelli by Anne Mary Babington and Isabel Cargill for the English-speaking community in Rome, it is the most quintessentially English tearoom...

Il Boeucc ('the hole' in Milanese dialect) began its legendary history in 1696 as a small tavern on Via Borgogna, at the corner with Via...

Ten generations! The family founder Johann Kühbacher bought it for 5,588 florins and his son married the daughter of his competitor, who ran the nearby...

The nineteenth century ‘Thieves Inn’, once the haunt of highwaymen, is the last of the authentic Milanese inns situated on the outskirts of the city....

A jewel of the Liberty style: the building, rooms, windows, furnishings, statues, paintings and objects all have a D’Annunzio aura about them. In 1909 it...

Like the terrace of a grand hotel, or a café or restaurant overlooking the sea, the Piazzetta is a salon of life and culture. Ever...

A landmark in the history of hospitality. Originally the Pension Wolf, in 1913 it was transformed into the elegant Hotel Continental by Musch&Lun, masters of...

“First-rate house, banquet hall, central heating and guesthouses” claimed the first advertisement for the hotel, which was part of an urban development project opposite the...

Hotel Adria, founded in 1885, is located in the elegant Maia Alta district of Merano, representing a perfect fusion of historical elegance and modernity. Designed...

Near Monreale, a place beloved of the Palermo aristocracy, it originally sold wines from the estate of a family of nobles, before becoming a trattoria....

A fourteenth-century inn on the right bank of the Serchio, originally on the estate of Count de Nobili, it was a resting place for merchants...

A fourteenth-century inn on the right bank of the Serchio, originally on the estate of Count de Nobili, it was a resting place for merchants...

Colourful halls with precious ceramics and copper cooking implements everywhere afford the most heavenly views. With all the homemade fragrances, flavours and liqueurs of earlytwentiethcentury...

When it was still the Ristorante Biaggi, Giuseppe Mazzini plotted against Carlo Alberto and may also have founded his “Giovane Italia” here. Carlo Cattaneo sought...

Frank Sinatra had its pesto sent to America. For a month’s tour in China, Pavarotti took along not just a huge quantity but also the...

An oasis of Italian hospitality in the Canton of Ticino, this hotel has both Italian ownership and management. King Albert of Belgium liked the Hotel...

In a document dated 4 April 1782, which prohibited the introduction of ‘foreign wines’ into the State of Lucca and placed it under the control...

The café that made the history of Oneglia, in the same family for three generations. This was a café for gentlemen, where only graduates were...

The café that made the history of Oneglia, in the same family for three generations. This was a café for gentlemen, where only graduates were...

A legendary name in Umbrian hospitality, it is set in a thirteenth-century building with vaulted ceilings and period furniture, where tradition has it that Saint...

The History and Passion of the Sicilian Confectionery Tradition live here in this Liberty-style candy factory for the production of fine sugared almonds, cinnamons and...

Italy’s most famous confectioners. Verdi wrote that they ‘exquisitely candied all manner of fruits’, and King Umberto of Savoy chose them for his wedding with...

A second home to the “Il Secolo XIX” and “Il Lavoro”, from 1947 to 1968 the legendary editors Cavassa and Pertini would come to dash...

A shrine of the traditions and recipes of the ancient village of San Desiderio, with the same family in the kitchen for five generations, it...

A Liberty-style building of true excellence, on the grandest street in Genoa, where the aristocracy of the “Superba” came for great festivities in the luxurious...

A majestic succession of buildings on the lake, and splendid aristocratic halls with frescoed ceilings and stuccoes, this is a Belle Époque masterpiece with touches...

After concerts at the Teatro Comunale, Maestro Rubinstein always wanted the table at the centre of the room. Montale sought refuge here when he was...

Papini, Soffici and Palazzeschi debated here in 1914 in favour of intervention against Austria; Cesare Battisti dropped in to cheers from the crowd, Prezzolini used...

Papini, Soffici and Palazzeschi debated here in 1914 in favour of intervention against Austria; Cesare Battisti dropped in to cheers from the crowd, Prezzolini used...

Dominating all Florence, the splendid building by the city planner Giuseppe Poggi was designed in 1865 as a museum in the project for Viale dei...

A former peasant-family home – still with original nineteenth-century furnishings – this gem of the Dolomites stood on the Royal Imperial Road of Alemagna, linking...

In Via Calzaioli, where it started out as the “Bottega dei Pani Dolci”, in 1848 the staff joined the crowd to bid the volunteers farewell...

A city institution, it was in this elegant salon under the nineteenth-century arcades of Piazza Galimberti that “Cuneesi al rhum” chocolates, of Europe-wide fame, were...

The Sperlari shop in Via Solferino is a testament to the history, culture, and people of Cremona. Enea Sperlari, took over a nougat and mustard...

The oldest meeting place for sweet delights, with an elegant pastry-shop and tea room on the first floor, exquisitely furnished in an all-original Liberty style....

Heir to the ancient Albergo dello Scudo di Francia, in a noble fifteenth-century palazzo. When Florence was the capital of the Kingdom of Italy from...

A baker’s boy, Gio Batta Luca Bonino, ‘Luchin’ to his friends, set up on his own and opened a tavern in the ancient carruggi alleyways....

The essence of Cortina, and its buvette. At the legendary bar with its universally renowned barman, Hemingway enjoyed martinis and red wine when he was...

Located at the top of the ‘meadow’ in Cogne, on the road to the Gran Paradiso natural park, this is a home of hospitality, run...

Heir to the nineteenth-century Piatti pastry-shop, this is the paradise of “Nocciolini” (originally “Noasetti”), exquisite and simple pastries with Piedmontese hazelnuts, sugar and eggwhite, which...

Pastry-cooks from Sent in the Grisons, the Swiss owners painted their national flag on the shutters and the café became a neutral zone during the...

A sign stating that ‘Here the pig is magnificated’ dominates the little room in this corner of genuine cuisine behind Ragusa. A gastronomic haven of...

A graceful Liberty style with solid, still nineteenth-century lines, all original: counter, marbles, windows, floors, vaults, and even the antique dough kneader and cash till....

Located on the shores of Lake Como, Villa d’Este is surrounded by a beautiful 10-hectare park. Built in 1568 as the summer residence of Cardinal...

In the nineteenth century, steamboats – from which it takes its name – used to leave from the station just round the corner. One of...

Handed down from father to son for six generations, this is where Italy met the Hapsburg Empire, where horses were changed and mail collected. This...

1930s style and elegance. Opened by the Monuments and Antiquities authority of Salerno, and run ever since by the same family, it is located in...

In a mix of plates and palettes, artists like Vellani Marchi, Miró, Vedova, Carrà, De Pisis, Matisse and de Chirico have been fascinated by this...

This is a magical place in the heart of the mountains, with a huge fireplace and ancient barrel vault painted with stars, a terrace overlooking...

After a contentious meeting at the university on 20 January 1914, during which they accused the cultural circles of Bologna of being “professorial mould”, Marinetti,...

A place of delights for the eyes, pleasure for the palate, and joy for the heart, is the Caffè Pasticceria Converso in Bra. Its history...

Five generations in one of Italy’s most ancient pastry shops. In the heart of the Mercato di Mezzo, it has maintained the traditions of the...

For over a century, its sweet and savoury delights have made it a leading institution in this erudite city. The venue for memorable banquets, such...

One of the oldest establishments in Italy, during the Renaissance it was known as the “inn of two swords”, but in 1681 it took the...

A gathering place for the vernacular poets of Bergamo in the ‘Duchy of Piazza Pontida’, which migrated with its verses around the most characteristic establishments...

This Lake Como jewel opened its doors a century and a half ago, becoming an immediate success. Sir Winston Churchill, F. D. Roosevelt, J. F....

This elegant beer house was founded by the Austrian master brewer Otto Wipflinger, who was the first to produce, import, distribute and make known Austrian...

In a beautiful building on the main square, it was originally the “Società del Casino”, a cultural club that adopted the fashion for French cafés,...

The salon of thinkers and an institution in Ascoli, for years it was home to the “Senato” association of city worthies. King Vittorio Emanuele came...

A place of excellence in terms of its patrons and meetings, this is the salon of Arezzo. Originally a place for scholars and aristocrats in...

An architectural gem of incalculable value, with precious period furniture, it houses a splendid circular Gothic hall, the last vestige of the Convent of St...

This lovely ‘Liberty’ style building in the old part of town, just near the cathedral, was the ancient confectionery factory set up by grandpa Nicola...

The “caffè concerto” in Italy was born here, in about 1920, with artists of the calibre of Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli. Maxim Gorky used...

A gem in the little square just by the lovely Duomo, where early 20th century style and furnishings have all been preserved, together with the...

In the cellars of a fourteenth-century palazzo, close to the basilica of the same name, this is a fascinating, pristine monument to the ‘medieval fantasy’...

Italy's oldest distillery was founded here, in the premises below the Nardini Grapperia, which still stands today on Palladio's Ponte Vecchio. It was 1779 when...