Caffè San Marco

Antico Caffè San Marco in Trieste ( Via Battisti 18) is a 1914 arisen literary café.

History

The cafe was opened on January 3, 1914, built in a 1912 Assicurazioni Generali belonging house. According to Claudio Magris the first owner Marco Lovrinovich from Fontane d' Orsera was at Parenzo. The restaurant was founded in 1830 similar to the Caffè Tommaseo one of the centers of the irredentist in the main port city of the Habsburg monarchy, to which the Venetian Lion of St. Mark referenced in furniture. Here to have been produced, among other false passports for Italian - patriotic activists. On May 23, 1915 the day the war occurrence of Italy at the side of the Entente the café was therefore destroyed by pro- Austro -oriented intruders. Lovrinovich was imprisoned in Liebenau, because he is said to have withdrawn from the Austrian military service by an intentionally induced eye infection. Later, the cafe was indeed re- opened in 1918, but remained largely unnoticed for decades. Only the renovation and reopening of 16 June 1997 (with the help of the home owner, the said insurance) led to a renaissance of traditional cafes. The San Marco with its period furnishings and largely original is also known as a literary café. Here perverted among other Italo Svevo, James Joyce, and later Fulvio Tomizza and Claudio Magris.