Caffe Florian
Caffè Florian is a coffee house position in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice. It was entrenched in 1720 and is the oldest coffee house in uninterrupted operation in Italy, and one of the oldest in the world the ancient being Café Procope established in Paris in 1686. The Florian opened with two simple provision rooms on 29 December 1720 as Alla Venezia Trionfantebut soon became known as Caffè Florian, after its original co-owner Floriano Francesconi.
The Caffè was pretentious in its early days by notable people involving the playwright Carlo Goldoni, Goethe, and Casanova, who was no doubt interested by the fact that Caffè Florian was the only coffee house that authorized women. Later Lord Byron and Charles Dickens were frequent visitors.