Friday, 02 September 2011 14:38

Turin Coffee Bars

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Three good reasons for visiting the provincial capital of Piemonte? The home of Fiat; of course! 'Juventus', Italy's most supported football team; maybe not! And the third ...

We like the delightful cafés and pasticcerie or cake shops where you can sit in elegant surroundings and taste the good life as it must have been 100 years ago.

Although we don't recommend an extended walking tour of the city's cake shops, maybe you could look for one of these famous landmarks where you can order a chocolate dessert or a sticky bun.

The 'Al Bicerin' Caffè Confetteria founded in 1763 for coffee, you can find it just in front of the Consolata Sanctuary.

Chocolate and creamed milk, 'Fratelli Stratta' (1836) or 'Baratti & Milano' for cream cakes.

The classic coffee restaurant 'Torino' (1903) whose logo just happens to be both the symbol of the city and Torino's other football team 'Torino'.

On a more savoury note, the famous long sticks of bread called grissini on every Italian dinner table were born in 1679 thanks to one man, a local Torino baker by the name of Antonio Brunero.

He was commissioned to make a bread which was 'long, light and subtle'. The request was part of a treatment for the health of the young Duke Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia.

His invention was a great success and the bread became so popular it entered the daily life of the Torinese and soon the whole of Italy - albeit pale imitations of the real thing if you ask any Piemontese.

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