Wystan Auden Cafe
Often gathered here representatives of artistic bohemia. These walls remember Carlo Goldoni, the great playwright and a connoisseur of human characters (not here whether he drew inspiration from watching the visitors?), the famous heart-throb Giacomo Casanova, who loved this cafe because it was the only one in Venice, where women were allowed. Among them were Lord Byron, Ugo Foscolo, Goethe, Madame de Stael, Chateaubriand, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, De Annunzio and Eleonora Duse, Rubinstein, Stravinsky, Modigliani. This cafe loved Joseph Brodsky probably guessed his property does not mirror the high only absorb reflections, but return them. His famous essay 'Quay incurable' ends with a strange vision: 'High smooth window' Florian a ', a well-lit and covered with a shield, burning through wisps of fog. I went up to him and peered inside. Inside was a 195? year. On the red plush sofa, around a marble table with the Kremlin bottles and teapots, Wystan Auden sat with his main love Chester Kalman, Cecil Day Lewis with his wife and Stephen Spender with her.
Wystan was telling some funny stories, and laughing all the 'Today …' Florian 'is also popular. As before, there is often going to the artists, poets, writers and artists. From April to October in the cafe are art exhibitions and music concerts. But, nevertheless, its main visitors – the tourists. 'Florian' – not the cheapest cafes in Venice. Cup of espresso, a little more than a thimble, is here about EUR 6. But even if the usual standards This price exceeds the limit, for the dedicated traveler – she is not a barrier at the end of the day, it can be considered as entrance fee to the museum. After all, in fact, 'Florian', and it is muzeem.V luxurious six small rooms, decorated in the Rococo style: sofas, upholstered in red velvet, beautiful frescoes, marble tables, sculptures, mirrors and many famous glass from Murano. And the great spirit still hovers in these walls.