Originally the “Gran Caffè”, in 1890 was renovated by Antonio Curri in the Liberty style, with splendid frescoes and paintings by the greatest artists of nineteenth-century Naples. The political, urban and moral hub of the city, here D’Annunzio wrote the verses of his “A vucchella”, Edoardo Scarfoglio and Matilde Serao launched the daily “Il Mattino” and Croce, Wilde, Marinetti, Hemingway, Sartre came to sit. Set of the Café Chantant during the Belle Époque, here arose the rite of “Caffé Sospeso”. Part of the building was turned into a Bank by the Fascist prefect in 1938, it won back its stunning rooms overlooking Piazza del Plebiscito thanks to the Sergios, it’s managing family for fifty years. It is the main stop-over of the Presidents of Italian Republic visiting Naples.
