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Established in the 1700s as Europe’s first coffee cluster, Trieste remains, for many Italian coffee lovers, merchants and connoisseurs, the world’s most important trade centre for coffee.The high concentration of specialized firms working in the business makes it the only city in the world to have a complete supply chain, gravitating around its historic port. Trieste’s unique geographic location near the border of Slovenia and designation as free port in the nineteenth century gave the town a competitive edge that enabled it to dominate the coffee trade in Europe.
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