Padua owes its \u2018Gran Caff\u00e8 Internazionale\u2019<\/i> to Antonio Pedrocchi, a famous cafe-owner who had long dreamt of a place whose design would be both functional and impressive. The designs for this building were by the architect Giuseppe Jappelli, whose work was strongly influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment.
In the nineteenth century, the caf\u00e9 became a meeting-place for intellectuals and men-of-letters; a place where \u201cideas were born\u201d, parties were celebrated, Masonic meetings held and commercial deals negotiated. In effect, it was a key point of reference for students, local people, travellers and businessmen. Its clients included the writers Ippolito Nievo and Giovanni Prati and Risorgimento patriots such as Arnaldo Fusinato. And among the out-of-towners who are known to have frequented the caf\u00e9 were Stendhal, Th\u00e9ophile Gautier, Gabriele d\u2019Annunzio, Eleonora Duse and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The ground floor centres around the monumental Red Hall, whose elliptical marble serving counter was designed by Jappelli himself and rests on six carved lions\u2019 feet. To each end is another room: in the White Room one can still see the traces left by the bullets fired at some university students by Austrian soldiers during the Risorgimento uprising of 8 February 1848. The Green Room was intended for the less wealthy customers, a place where they could get warm in winter or just rest for a while (without waiters expecting them to order anything). The upper floor houses the Museum of the Risorgimento and of the Contemporary Age in several interlinked rooms whose decoration eclectically reflects the various styles of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Located in the city centre, opposite the university, this is one of the symbols of Padua and a popular place to eat or just to have a coffee. Opened in 1831, Caff\u00e8 Pedrocchi was known as a place \u2018without doors\u2019 because right up to 1916 it was always open, at any hour of the day or night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":981956,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[],"tags":[887,907,1469,1817,1827,512,667,682,683,769,875],"categorie_poi":[523,524,757,760],"class_list":["post-6360","luogo","type-luogo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-location-per-eventi","tag-ristorante","tag-weddings","tag-visitabile-en","tag-location-per-eventi-en","tag-matrimoni","tag-storico","tag-moderno","tag-gotico","tag-modern","tag-visitabile","categorie_poi-musei-e-gallerie-darte","categorie_poi-edifici-e-vie-storiche","categorie_poi-museums-and-art-galleries","categorie_poi-historical-buildings-and-streets"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n