Babylon Caffe - CASTEL DEL PIANO

The Babylon Café is the meeting place of the consistent Kurdish community on the slopes of Mount Amiata. Tea and coffee as in a chaykhune, an interior room where you kill yourself of domino and backgammon, the terrace with tapchans made of pallets and carpets, and behind the case a sheet of paper where the manager notes the suspended . At the disposal of the adventurous also some books on the Kurdish cause and communications of political initiatives; a undoubtedly constructive fact in an era in which for decades public conversations never exult from television themes. Really nice to come across, in the middle of the Italian peninsula, in a place that Franco Battiato would have described as remaining at normal quotas.

Local in the norm...caffe'medio...beer and liqueur...beautiful view of the square...and fresh in the summer evening...to try again with more calm. to the next