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# 70 • OCTOBER 19 , 2015
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ITALIAN CULTURE AND HISTORY:
Venice’s Historic Cafes
By www.italia.it
When it comes to historical Italian coffee, you can not help but talk of Venice.
It is in this lagoon city that the tradition
of coffee was born, that due to its posi-
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tion and its trade relations with the Arab
world, which then spread to the rest of
Italy. The first "botega da caffè" in Piazza San Marco existed already at the end