Caffè del Tasso ---

"The most beautiful thing about our history is that it was born completely by chance." These are the words with which Marcello Menalli – manager, together with his brother Massimo, of "Caffè del Tasso" – opens the doors of his world to us, filled with anecdotes captured in photographs hung with pride and messages left on the pages of a book considered a treasure. We met with them along with the Urban Commerce District to listen to the most recent chapter of a centuries-old story, made of passion and commitment. It was truly by chance, in 1989, that the Menalli family came to visit Bergamo, and it was again by chance that brought father Giuseppe, mother Erminia, Marcello and Massimo – the first a former bartender on Costa Cruise ships, the second freshly graduated from hotel school – onto the red bricks of Piazza Vecchia. "A v