Coffee arrives to Europe
European travellers who visited at that time the Middle East countries probably would visit too the coffee house where business were done, or they just simply saw coffee carriages in the streets where coffee in cups was sold. The reports these travellers brought back to their countries were so positive, that Europe started gaining interest on the coffee.
Perhaps, these travellers took with them some coffee samples, although people from Venice were the first to bring large quantities of coffee to Europe. The first shipment arrived at Venice in 1615 from Turkey and the first coffee shop was opened 30 years later.
Coffee arrived also to Vienna in 1683 right after the city had been besieged by the Turkish. Coffee was kept by a soldier officer who told the Turkish to leave the coffee before their escape as a way of paying their spying activities. This soldier office was the only person in that place with some knowledge of coffee and how to us e it. Later, he established a coffee shop in Vienna and became rich.
Coffee consumption became popular, and at the end of the 17th century there were coffee shops in other countries such as Austria, France, the Netherlands and England.
