Specialty coffee in Cremona

When Angelo Grandi listed Cremona's best-known cafés in 1856, all he wrote about the caffè della Posta on piazza San Domenico was this: the only one open all night. The city did not see a steam machine making coffee in the cup until the Aquarius on the corner of via Solferino. Verdi looked in at the cafés here on market days and liked to say that coffee is a balm for the heart and the spirit. So the all-night café came before the machine that could make the coffee.