Florence’s wine portals from the 17th Century

While aFlorence restaurant was forced to close due to Covid, it was able to keep onepart of the business open in the form of 17th-Century buchette del vino, or“wine holes”.

The buchettedel vino, or “wine holes”, became very import to Florence during the plague of1630 as they allowed for the safe sale of wine and food. Today, there are morethan 180 of these socially distant, libation-serving windows from the 17thCentury that are peppered throughout the Italian city; however, few locals knewtheir original function before the pandemic. Since lockdown, they have drawnpeople from around the world.