Καφέ Φλοριάν: τι υπάρχει τριγύρω, πώς να φτάσετε και πότε να πάτε · 2026

State surveillance and political upheavals repeatedly altered the premises. Venetian State Inquisitors shuttered the business when French Jacobins adopted the tables as an international forum, prompting the owner to strip the founding name once French troops entered. Decades later, local patriots turned the Senate Hall into an operational base against Austrian rule, converting the gilded rooms into a field hospital for wounded insurgents.

Renovations by Lodovico Cadorin expanded the footprint from the initial rooms into specialized thematic salons, including the Chinese, Greek, Oriental, and Seasons halls. Authors including Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, and Marcel Proust frequented these decorated spaces. For people staying months in the city, the arcade functions as an early morning workstation before tourist foot traffic fills the piazza.