Just returned from vacation we have the healthy habit of making a selection of places visited, emotions and feelings during the trip, to be placed in a secret place of the heart in order to get them out at the right time.
of my trip "On the road in Portugal I would like to mention two places discovered by chance in Rua Cecilio de Sousa, an alley almost anonymous in Lisbon.
The first is a library called "Poetry Incomplete" devoted entirely to poetry.
The library consists of two rooms and a garden in the two rooms there are shelves full of books of poetry, and behind the books, boxes of uncatalogued books of poetry.
The store does not sell any other type of books: no drama, no drama, no cd, no games, coffee, wine, live music, nothing, no happening.
is a shop that you see only if you love poetry, you sit inside or in the garden and read books that the owner and his girlfriend bought on their travels around the world.
For me, a library, which is at an alleyway in New York or anonymous, pass an examination on the basis of its poetry section.
is from that department that you can understand if the owner is there to love or greed of wealth.
Most of the big bookstore chains relegate poetry in the back or in the basement of the store, like a guilty secret.
The poem does not bring money to anyone is a gift.
is the only library dedicated entirely to poetry that I've ever seen.
The second is a small roasting called "Claudio Corallo", run by a beautiful woman with blue eyes.
The owner is the daughter of Claudio Corallo, a Don Quixote of Florence who is responsible for the processing of coffee and cocoa in Sao Tome and Principe in Africa.
History is not merely that of a family of passionate dedication to the production of chocolate and coffee and only the highest quality but also that of a Tuscan family, which has brought renewed hope and pride to more than 2000 inhabitants of this small African country that directly or indirectly involved in the production of chocolate.
These two places, the stories and faces behind it, alone worth the ticket price.
Poetry, chocolate and coffee ... the way of wonders!
