Pedrocchi+Café

Pedrocchi café is the most important café in Padua. It was built between 1826 and 1831 by the architect Giuseppe Jappelli in a pure neo-classical style; in 1838 Giuseppe Jappelli decided to juxtapose a neo-gothic, small building to the south façade. This new part was called “Pedrocchino” (little Pedrocchi). The clashing of these two parts is what makes Pedrocchi quite peculiar. Also the inside holds together different styles: on the upper floor there are nine room, each furnished following the taste of different historical period: Herculaneum room, Greek room, Renaissance room, Rossini’s room, Egyptian room, Roman room, Baroque room, Etruscan room and Moresque room. On the ground floor there are the green, red and white room named in this way in honour of the Italian flag. All over Europe, during the Enlightenment, coffee houses were used for literary and social meetings, this is why Pedrocchi cafè was frequented above all by students and professors (in 1848 it was the hub of the Risorgimento uprising). Today, it is a meeting place not only for students and professors, but also for the city-dwellers, mainly bourgeois people.

CURIOSITY

 * Pedrocchi is said to be “a coffee house without door” because it is open to everybody; moreover, in the “green room” you can sit at the table without consuming.


 * Stendhal wrote that Pedrocchi was “le meilleur cafè d’Italie”

//Pedrocchi//



//Pedrocchino//



//Internal room//



//Antonio Pedrocchi//



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