Pedrocchi Café

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The Pedrocchi Café is one of the biggest cafés in the world. It's a magnificent 19th century building in the centre of Padova, Italy. Its rooms are decorated in various styles and show the great ecleptism of Giuseppe Jappelli, the famous architect who made the project of the buiding. The café is historically known for having been the centre of the 1848 riots in Padova as well as for having been and for being still nowadays the meeting point of great artists such as the French novelist Stendhal, the English poet Lord Byron, the Italian Nobel prize winner Dario Fo.

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