45°4′12.77″N 7°40′58.58″E / 45.0702139°N 7.6829389°E
The Caffè Fiorio is a historic café in Turin, northern Italy, located at Via Po 8.
Founded in 1780, [1] Fiorio became a fashionable meeting place for the artistic, intellectual and political classes of the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Frequented by Urbano Rattazzi, [2] Massimo D'Azeglio, [2] Giovanni Prati, Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour [2] (who founded the Whist Club here), Giacinto Provana di Collegno, Cesare Balbo and Friedrich Nietzsche, [3] [4] it became known as "the café of the Machiavellis and of the pigtails." [5] [6]