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, skilled confectionery makers create enormous chocolate sculptures, which are broken up at the end of the festival and the pieces distributed to all the public.
Confectioners and chefs display their
chocolate creations, experimenting with new flavours: today chocolate is also used for the preparation of main and second courses. Chocolate tasters are given for free everywhere throughout the festival. Eurochocolate has been also defined the gluttons festival, unique and various as the most prestigious Italian and foreign confectionery reality that here display their products.
Lindt, Nestlé, Caffarel, are some of the brand participating to this festival.
Here in 2003, ten
confectionery masters 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.
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