Liquore Galliano

I am not sure how much Liquore Galliano (Galliano liqueur) is still fashionable around the world, but it was conceived in Livorno in 1896 by the distiller Arturo Vaccari. It is a complex herbal liqueur whose main components are anise and vanilla. After many years of local production, the brand is now owned by the Dutch distiller Lucas Bols.

The liqueur was named after major Giuseppe Galliano, an Italian war hero of the disastrous colonial adventure known as the First Italo-Ethiopian War. By the way, also the renowned Livornese tenor Galliano Masini, born in the same period, may own his unusual name to the fame of the brave major.

(Postcards digitized from the collection of Antonio Cantelli)

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