It has come to my attention that all over Florence, Italy are these cute little things called buchetta del vino, which means "wine window" in English.
Back in the day, rich Italians who owned vineyards would sell their wines directly to customers through a tiny window in the wall.
But in the 1630s, the wine windows got really good use because of the Black Death. It was a way to sell socially distanced wine and hopefully not catch the literal plague.
There are hundreds of these adorable wine windows around Florence and Tuscany.
And there's a cultural association called Buchette Del Vino that maps them all out and in general has all the information you'd ever want to know about wine windows.
