Trieste 'capital of coffee' event at Milan Expo
(ANSA) - Trieste, September 9 - Gabriella Kropf, president of Promotrieste, will present Thursday an exhibit at the Expo Milan Coffee Cluster about the historical and other links between the city of Trieste and coffee. "Trieste is the capital of coffee," said the president of the consortium created to promote the image of the port city and increase tourism.
"It is one of the most authentic souls of the city, where one savours a culture of coffee that goes back to the 19th century, enriched also thanks to the presence of different religious communities". The encounter will be an opportunity for explaining the Trieste coffee network, an economic, technical and productive system" that is unique in the national and international panorama". "Trieste is the Italian port par excellence for coffee - it receives most coffee sacks.
Various grinding and packing firms are there and the beverage, the most drunk in the world after water, is studied at the coffee University in the Science Area Park". Trieste also has created culture through coffee - in its historic coffee shops one could meet (Umberto) Saba, (Italo) Svevo, (James) Joyce and other intellectuals". The event, organised in collaboration with Illycaffé "therefore aims to make Trieste known through its peculiar relationship with coffee and will be an opportunity to invite everyone to visit the exhibit 'the taste of a city' open at the Salone degli Incanti until November 8," said Kropf.
Various grinding and packing firms are there and the beverage, the most drunk in the world after water, is studied at the coffee University in the Science Area Park". Trieste also has created culture through coffee - in its historic coffee shops one could meet (Umberto) Saba, (Italo) Svevo, (James) Joyce and other intellectuals". The event, organised in collaboration with Illycaffé "therefore aims to make Trieste known through its peculiar relationship with coffee and will be an opportunity to invite everyone to visit the exhibit 'the taste of a city' open at the Salone degli Incanti until November 8," said Kropf.