French King Louis XV was so fond of the beverage that he set up a small coffee plantation on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles. Pope Clement VIII ‘baptised’ coffee so that its opponents would no longer ‘pick on it’. Johann Sebastian Bach composed a cantata about coffee. And those are just a few anecdotes about it.
What do we love coffee for and what properties does it have? Avicenna already wrote about this in his work ‘Canon of Medicine’.
You can learn about these and other interesting facts in the exhibition ‘Coffee, the Wondrous Drink’
‘Among the numerous luxuries, coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable.’
Benjamin Franklin
