Venues that evoke more than a century of the city's history

The first Coffee shops were opened in Trieste during the second half of the eighteenth century. They immediately took on an unmistakable Viennese connotation in their interior decorations and in the services they offered. Trieste has a feature unique within Italy: the traditional Viennese-style coffee house. But it was thanks to the cosmopolitan spirit of the city that the coffee tradition became so popular.

Today the  Cafés are still fascinating meeting places and there you see elegant ladies sipping their coffee, famous writers and poets, university students writing their lecture notes and obviously tourists who are immediately bewitched by the slow and relaxed rhythm surrounding them. In an ideal itinerary you will walk past the Cafés called Tommaseo, Caffè degli Specchi, Tergesteo, Stella Polare, Torinese, Urbanis, Pirona and the Ancient Caffè San Marco.

These Cafés are all able to evoke more than one century of the city's history through events that tell us about culture, invasions, literature and freedom , but that at the same time are perfectly set within the framework of the XXI century and just like one hundred years ago they are well tuned in to their clients' needs and wishes.

Discover how to order a coffe in Trieste

Ordering a coffee in Trieste could become a real linguistic adventure" Would you like an espresso? Then you must ask for a "nero" ,if you want it with a little milk you must order a "goccia" or "gocciato" . That which in the rest of Italy is a macchiato becomes a "capo" in Trieste, and if you ask for a "capo in b", the macchiato will be served to you in a glass!