Ornate 18th century cafe. “Casanova, in his “memoirs”, recounts the occasion of his very first visit to the caffè in via condotti. In 1779, goethe became an habitué, spending time there with the large number of german artists living in the area at that time. But the true golden age for the Caffè Greco was to come in the nineteenth century, when its tables played host to the most eminent painters, sculptors, musicians and literati of the age, who flocked there from across europe. To name just a few; mendelsson, berlioz, wagner, liszt, leopardi, gogol, stendhal, andersen; the latter even renting rooms above the caffè itself.”