St Mark’s Square in Venice is the most important place of the city, home to most of the interesting attractions here. Did you know, however, that Saint Mark wasn’t the original patron of Venice? Further, that Venice stole him in the most literal sense of the words? Today, we’ll go over all things Piazza San marco, both the history of St Mark’s Square and what it currently offers.
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There aren’t many places like this one in Europe. Vienna has its Central Café, Budapest has the famous New York Café, but that’s about it. And we’d argue that Venice has something even better. Caffè Florian is one of the world’s most beautiful and oldest coffee houses, located in the beautiful Piazza San Marco and in operation since 1720. You, too, can have a coffee in the same place as Goethe and Casanova. How much does coffee cost at Caffè Florian? What is its history? Let’s go over that today.