It is easy to imagine important people such as Empress Sissi or Queen Marie Antoinette sitting at small elegant tables dressed with pastries and talking about clothes, tea and politics. What is more difficult to think about is that these women, like us, had their daily favourites…one of them was the passion for sweets.

Espresso is the base of every non-filtered kind of coffee, the purest form of this drink, and also the key to understand coffee culture in Italy.