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title: "Staying safe during 16th and 21st century plagues: Florence’s wine windows"
description: Some of Florence, Italy’s centuries-old buildings feature what are known as “wine windows”. These small, narrow windows allowed wine...
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# [Staying safe during 16th and 21st century plagues: Florence’s wine windows](https://aiatranslations.com/blog/post/staying-safe-during-16th-and-21st-century-plagues-florence-s-wine-windows)

 Written by [Alysa Salzberg](https://aiatranslations.com/blog/author/alysa-salzberg) | Aug 21, 2020 4:00:00 AM

Some of Florence, Italy’s centuries-old buildings feature what are known as “wine windows”. These small, narrow windows allowed wine merchants to sell their bottles and receive payment with minimal physical contact during the 17th-century Italian plague.

History as a way of repeating itself, and so, Florentine shop owners whose stores have a wine window have decided to revive the trend. In present-day Florence, you can currently buy not only wine, but cocktails, coffee, takeout, and even gelato through these old stone apertures.

[Read on](https://www.afar.com/magazine/italys-plague-era-wine-windows-reopen-for-pandemic-proof-drink-service) to learn more about the 21st-century Florentine business owners who are using wine windows just like their predecessors did four hundred years ago. And you can [find out more](https://buchettedelvino.org/home%20eng/home.html) about the fascinating history of wine windows via the Wine Windows Association’s website.

[*Image source*](https://buchettedelvino.org/home%20eng/home.html)

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