Caffè Fiorio

The Caffè Fiorio is a historic café in Turin, northern Italy, located at Via Po 8.

Founded in 1780,[1] Fiorio became a fashionable meeting place for the artistic, intellectual and political classes of the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Frequented by Urbano Rattazzi,[2] Massimo D'Azeglio,[2] Giovanni Prati, Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour[2] (who founded the Whist Club here), Giacinto Provana di Collegno, Cesare Balbo and Friedrich Nietzsche,[3][4] it became known as "the café of the Machiavellis and of the pigtails.

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