Antico Caffè San Marco

Inside, it features elegant furniture, marble and stuccos created under the supervision of famous artist (as well as alpinist and writer) Napoleone Cozzi, and is beautifully decorated with paintings by Vito Timmel. The café has always been popular with artists and intellectuals (Timmel, Flumiani, Voghera, Tomizza, Mattioni, Magris), and during the Great War it was the place where passports were forged, to allow anti-Austrian patriots into Italy.

This is why, on 23 May 1915, it was destroyed and closed down by the Austro-Hungarian army. It stayed closed until after the Second World War, when it was taken over and renovated by Assicurazioni Generali.