An association founded with the aim of protecting and promoting the hotels, restaurants, and cafés that have shaped our country’s history.
The Associazione Locali Storici d’Italia is a non-profit cultural association that brings together around 200 of the oldest and most prestigious hotels, restaurants, patisseries, confectioners’ and literary cafés – venues that have played a key role in Italian history, both through the events they have organised or hosted and through the illustrious figures who have frequented them.
The Association, which is under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, has for 48 years been dedicated to promoting and protecting its member venues.
At least 70 years of operation
Preservation of the original interiors and furnishings (or those that reflect the establishment’s origins)
Collection of artifacts, mementos, and historical documents relating to events and notable figures
At least 70 years of operation
Preservation of the original interiors and furnishings (or those that reflect the establishment’s origins)
Collection of artifacts, mementos, and historical documents relating to events and notable figures
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Tradition, passion. Stories of families whose lives have been intertwined for generations with their restaurants, cafés and hotels. Stories which, very often, have given rise to products and recipes that are unique and inimitable, the result of intelligence, skill, taste and imagination
Tradition, passion. Stories of families whose lives have been intertwined for generations with their restaurants, cafés and hotels. Stories which, very often, have given rise to products and recipes that are unique and inimitable, the result of intelligence, skill, taste and imagination
New Guide 2026–2027
The corridors of time within Italy’s historic venues are paved with anecdotes and legends, where the clinking of glasses mingles with the echoes of cultural revolutions. The new edition of the Guide takes us on a unique journey to discover iconic labels, artisanal liqueurs, and signature cocktails that have been the silent protagonists of battles, political meetings, and memorable celebrations. Discover the stories of daring and identity preserved in the living monuments of the no
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In the splendid Sala Cardinali of the Grand Hotel Cocumella in Sant’Agnello, Sorrento—whose walls are adorned with portraits of the four high-ranking prelates that Sorrento has given to the Church—in the left-hand corner opposite the entrance, you can clearly hear what a person is whispering in the right-hand corner of the entrance.
Undulating, dynamic, inspired by nature, beautiful: whether from their original construction or following renovations in the late 19th century, over seventy historic venues in Italy embraced the Art Nouveau style. Here they are, brought together in an ideal itinerary to be explored for the pleasure of a “floral stop.” The research was conducted for the 2013 edition and has become part of the historical and cultural heritage of the Guide and the Association of Historic Venues of Italy.
These are the establishments which, during the Risorgimento, witnessed episodes that led to the Unification of Italy. Brought to light by research for the 2011 edition of this Guide, which paid tribute to the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy these stories have become part of the Association’s historical legacy.
At the Caffè Fiorio in Turin—a gathering place for staunch conservatives—on March 18, 1821, they attempted to persuade the court apothecary’s assistant to poison the medicine of Carlo Alberto of Savoy, who had just been appointed Regent and had promulgated the Constitution…