Caffè Pasticceria Stratta
Adri Cake

Adri Cake

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In 1959, when her family took over Stratta, Adriana Monzeglio started looking after the...

Stratta Sweets

Stratta Sweets

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]e are probably the world’s only soft-centred sweets still entirely made by hand. The original...

The Most “Unità d’Italia”

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…