Turin has been Italy’s coffee capital since before coffee existed as we know it today. It’s one of the Italian cities that boasts the highest number of cafés per capita, where in the eighteenth century artists and intellectuals would gather to imagine and write about what would soon become a nation.
In Turin, coffee isn’t something you just drink; it’s part of the lifestyle, the economy and the city’s history: this is home to Italy’s most famous roasteries, and nearby is the birthplace of both the moka coffee pot and the espresso machine. Coffee is a symbol, a tool that can be used to track history in fascinating period bars, or look to the future, directly where the coffee of tomorrow is being made.