Florence Medieval Wine Windows are Open Again to Serve All Kind of Things

Ideas from the past… From Florence, Italy.

Bars and restaurants to serve food and drinks with socially distancing, they’re bringing back the tiny windows used during the 17th century plague.

Wine windows, known locally as buchette del vino, are small hatches carved into the walls of over 150 buildings in Florence and Tuscany.

It was first introduced in the 17th century, the windows were originally used by merchants to sell surplus goods, such as wine.

During the Italian plague of the 1630s, the windows offered the perfect solution for stores to continue doing business while isolating from the public.

From buchettedelvino.org

Wine windows, or buchette del vino, were used in Florence in the 1630s during the plague for people to keep themselves safe.

The Italian Plague of 1629–1631 was a series of outbreaks of bubonic plague that ravaged northern and central Italy.

This epidemic, or the Great Plague of Milan, possibly killed one million lives, or…