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Pasticceria Liquoreria Marescotti Cavo
since 1750


Pasticceria Liquoreria Marescotti Cavo
Stendhal came to this splendid icon of the bounteous Superba and its 18th-19th-century shops, in search of the Morello-cherry liqueur he was so fond of. In the most aristocratic of ancient alleyways, just near the steam-ship berths, it was a favourite haunt of travellers. After being closed and sealed from 1979 to 2006, it has retained all its original rooms with their Charles X furnishings in maple and rosewood, and the marble floor made to a design by Peter Paul Rubens. It was purchased and restored by the Cavo family, who have been producing for five generations the historic Amaretti di Voltaggio, a registered tradename since 1931.

Address
Via di Fossatello 35R e 37R, 16124 Genova (GE)
Phone
+39 010 2091226
Fax
+39 010 2091226
eMail
info@cavo.it
Website
www.cavo.it
Roles
  • Alessandro Cavo - Licensee
  • Linda Celenza - Licensee
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The most sealed

The most sealed
Closed in 1979 upon the death of Irma Marescotti, the Liquoreria Pasticceria Marescotti Cavo in Genoa remained sealed, quite literally, for almost thirty years. In 2006, Alessandro Cavo obtained permission from the Marescotti estate to reopen the establishment. When he and the heirs pulled up the shutters for inspection, they found everything frozen in time: shelves, showcases, furnishings, bottles, glasses, containers, even notepads with jottings – everything was just waiting, in perfect order. Like in a movie, magically veiled in dust.


Amaretti di Voltaggio

Amaretti di Voltaggio
The almonds are Italian, exclusively from the Bari area, and the paste is stone-milled. The shape is created by hand, and so is the moulding on the baking tin and the sweet-style banding. The taste is a symphony of sweet almond.
First created in the late nineteenth century by Attilio Cavo in a little village in the Ligurian Apennines, where the oven where they were baked for the very first time can still be seen, Amaretti di Voltaggio (Voltaggio macaroons) have been made in exactly the same way for a hundred years, by the same family, and presented in the same lovely Liberty-style box. They managed to win over the extremely exacting aristocrats from Liguria and Piedmont who used to go to Voltaggio for the summer, staying in the elegant hotels that had sprung up around the fashionable hydrotherapy spas and the first wellbeing centres. And thus they reached all the way to the Court of Savoy, to which the Cavo family became official purveyors. They are indeed a little part of the history of Genoa, and in 1924 they were sold in the shops that the Cavo family opened in the city known as the “Superba”, just near the grand hotels that served the port in the legendary age of transatlantic liners.
Patented in 1931, they are still the pride of the historic Pasticceria Liquoreria Marescotti Cavo in the most aristocratic area of Genoa with its famous little alleyways known as “carrugi”. There is a delightful anecdote about Amaretti di Voltaggio, for they were involved in a gentleman’s agreement reminiscent of a bygone age, when a handshake and a word could seal an eternal contract. On 29 March 2007 Alessandro Cavo was granted the right by the Marescotti estate to reopen the ancient Pasticceria, which had remained closed for thirty years. The brand was ceded to him for 99 years in exchange for the first Amaretto di Voltaggio produced each year, as well as an undertaking to display the portraits of Irma and Beniamino Marescotti in the shop.





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