Eurochocolate - Perugia
Eurochocolate was hailed in few years from his first
edition as one of the most important event in Perugia.
Started in 1994, this festival has extended with the editions of Turin and
Rome. Eurochocolate, begun thanks to the support of Perugina (now belonging
to Nestlé), one of major chocolate producer in Italy and in the world,
is the festival that gluttons love most. The event takes place in the central
streets and squares of Perugia, and for eight days the historic centre of
the city changes thanks to the chocolate expositions, the open air laboratories,
and the chocolate tasting. During the week, in some stands, wise confectionery
artisans create enormous chocolate sculptures, which are destroyed in last
festival days and the pieces distributed to all the people. Confectioners
and chef display in the creation of chocolate dishes, experimenting new
flavours: today the cacao is also used for the preparation of main and second
courses. Chocolates and tastes are given for free everywhere. Eurochocolate
has been also defined the gluttons festival, unique and various as the most
prestigious Italian and foreign confectionery reality that here expose their
products. Lindt, Nestlé, Caffarel, are some of the brand participating
to this festival. Here in 2003, ten confectionery masters have created the
biggest chocolate of the world (a bacio perugina), that entered the Guinness
book. It was more than 7 meters large, two meters high and made with 3500
kilograms of dark chocolate, thousands of hazelnuts, for a global weight
of 5980 kilograms.
At Eurochocolate the chocolate is the real protagonist, but the real commitment
of this manifestation, is to promote and increase the value of chocolate,
not for its sake but as product of social culture and costume. Eurochocolate
illustrates all the evolution of chocolate, from the discovery of the nutritional
proprieties of the cacao plant 4000 years before Christ, by the Maya, to
the actual utilisation of this product. Debates and stages make this festival
more interesting and committed.
During Eurochocolate the city of Perugia is populated by thousands of Italian
and foreign tourists, so we advice to visit this event during the week to
avoid queues.
Its better to book in advance your hotel, bed and breakfast, country house
or holiday house in Perugia.
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