Caffè Fiorio

45°4′12.77″N 7°40′58.58″E

The coffee bar at cafe Fiorio in Turin Italy.

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."^[5][6]

See also

• Coffee portal