{"id":50610,"date":"2026-03-29T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/la-bella-vita.club\/?p=50610"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:14:50","slug":"aperitivo-in-italy-the-sacred-hour-before-the-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/la-bella-vita.club\/en\/aperitivo-in-italien-die-heilige-stunde-vor-dem-essen\/","title":{"rendered":"Aperitivo in Italy: the sacred hour before the meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

An aperitivo on the canal in Milan<\/strong>. Photo: V. Drozdova on. Pexels.com<\/a> <\/sub><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It's 6 pm in Milan, Bologna and Palermo. The offices are emptying, the bars are filling up.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere between the end of the day and Dinner<\/a> something happens that Italians have been celebrating with almost religious solemnity for more than 200 years: the aperitivo. The tables get fuller, the voices get louder, the glasses clink. What begins now lasts around two hours and is as indispensable for most Italians as dinner itself: the aperitivo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not a cocktail. More like an attitude.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The word comes from the Latin aperire - to open. The stomach should open up, the evening should unfold, the conversation anyway. The story begins in Turin in 1786, when Antonio Benedetto Carpano launched his vermouth on the market and unintentionally invented a national ritual. Since then, anyone who starts dinner without an aperitivo has misunderstood something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A sprizz in Venice. <\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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