Caffè Quadri () is a coffeehouse located in the

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Vecchie of

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. It was established in 1775. The restaurant underwent a first important renovation in 1830, under the management of the Vaerini brothers, who expanded both the spaces and the activities, purchasing the upper floor that was used as a restaurant. The ground floor was decorated with pastel stuccos, with a prevalence of green and yellow colors, and completed with views and scenes of Venetian life, the work of the painter Giuseppe Ponga, inspired by the style of Pietro Longhi. The property together with some other shops here are owned by Russian conductor

Valery Gergiev Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...

as a part of the vast real estate inheritance of the philanthropist

Yoko Nagae Ceschina (5 April 1932 – 10 January 2015) was a Japanese-born patron of the arts and noted patroness of classical music. Biography Born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, to a businessman father and mother who played the piano domestically, Yoko Nagae was ...

who has died in 2015. Elisabetta Andreis. Valery Gergiev, il tesoro immobiliare a Milano e l’eredità Ceschina: il maestro russo ha 20 palazzi sul mercato
// Corriere della Sera, 1 marzo 2022

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