“L’Eroica was invented in a café” is the inspirational article that featured in the L’Eroica Journal – the newspaper for enthusiasts of the Eroica “vintage” cycling and cultural movement – with the following words:

Eroica was invented in a café, the place where we spent most of our time after work. We cycled to the café, we read about and discussed cycling and its mythical heroes who inspired the best Italian writers and journalists of the 20^th century…