If you missed getting some chocolate for Valentine’s Day or simply have a desire for more, then you may want to mark March 17 – April 3 and a visit to Torino Italy, on your calendar.
The festival Cioccolatò, dedicated to the food of the Gods will include a replica of the peninsula of Italy made entirely in chocolate. More than 13 meters long and weighing about 14 tons, it will be on display in Piazza Vittorio Veneto in Torino Italy, from April 3 to March 17 2011. It will also include major monuments are also made of chocolate, including: the Mole, the Duomo in Milan, the campanile of San Marco in Venice, the Lighthouse of Genoa, the Coliseum in Rome, Male Angevin Naples and many others.
Providing the backdrop for this gigantic chocolate Italy is “I Mille di Cioccolatò – L’Italia del Cioccolato” or “Thousand of Cioccolatò.” Thousands of “made in Italy" varieties of chocolate will be available from the many chocolate partisans "that will invade" the city. They will be offering products for sale, from all the Italian chocolate districts, from the Gianduja District of Piedmont and the chocolate districts of Varese and Belluno, through to the Tuscan Chocolate Valley, the chocolate-making tradition of Umbria, and the South Pole of Chocolate, represented by the chocolate of Modica Sicily.
This “mouth-watering” event will conclude with the show “The Italians and Chocolate” which will trace the last 150 years of history of chocolate in Italy. It will describe its evolution from a luxury food only available to the elite to a mass consumption product, with a special focus on the chocolate making tradition of Turin and Piedmont.
To learn more, please visit www.cioccola-to.it



