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By : Giuseppe

The Italian Eurochocolate Festival, an event dedicated to the culture of chocolate, is preparing to inaugurate its fourteenth edition that will take place from the 18th to the 26th October in Perugia.

The festival has its core center in the historic center of the city.

It is the most popular festival of the chocolate and the most followed by Italians, making of Perugia the European capital of the chocolate.
For nine days the Umbrian chief town transforms itself in a huge open-air pastry-shop for the delight of all the choco-addicted.

At Eurochocolate Perugia festival there will be dozens of major events including exhibitions, laboratories, internships, cooking classes, tasting, expositions, banquets, celebrations and the final prizes which are the : Eurochocolate Awards.

The edition 2008 of the most famous chocolate exhibition for its fifteen years of life is shown still more amusing and joyful than ever, with new playful and oh so yummy products that will be introduced.

In Perugia, Eurochocolate will be Play Chocolate to celebrate game, joy and music.

Chocolate makes us go back to our childhood and Eurochocolate is a great festivity, where everybody comes to taste chocolate in its innumerable, traditional or unusual varieties, to be involved in a lively atmosphere in the historical city center.

The image-symbol of Play Chocolate is a paper airplane.

Many initiatives will animate Perugia from the 18th to 26th October and the innovations, still top secret, will be numerous.

For all the tourists the occasion is without any doubt a good one to discover the most remote corners of this antique medieval center and to enjoy the famous Umbrian hospitality.

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