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January 2006

CioccolaTÒ 2006. Great chocolatey surprises.

24 January 2006

A night of passion. Intense, delicious, full of emotion. How can you possibly refuse such a tantalizing invitation? An invitation to all gourmets to visit CioccolaTÒ 2006, the chocolate festival to be held in Turin from March 24 to April 2.

The first major innovation of 2006 will be then “Notte Calda”, or Hot Night. A night of passion. Intense, delicious, full of emotion. This will be a never-ending night imbued with the flavour of cocoa: from dusk till dawn in the centre of Turin, you will be able to savour hot chocolate to the rhythm of music and sounds that will fill the streets and squares.
But not only, the novice bards of the Holden School will set up stages in the most suggestive corners of Turin to narrate tales written especially for this occasion.

The novelties of CioccolaTÒ 2006 don't end here. The festival – which this year will take place in Piazza San Carlo, also known as the “drawing room of Turin” - is brimming with events designed to explore the world of chocolate and unveil the secrets of its countless qualities. This is the scope of the Cocoa Spring: an interactive museum with a plantation, equipment, and machinery for explaining the process that transforms cocoa beans into a bar of chocolate.

As for each and every year, CioccolaTÒ is also a sampling of quality, culture, art, and literature. Even the collaboration with Slow Food continues to offer Turin memorable moments with great chefs and master chocolate makers from all over the world, while the evolutionary rapport between chocolate and culture is represented through the tales presented by the Holden School.

Following the success of last year’s competition, CioccolaTÒ 2006 will once again organize the greatest Chocolate Bake-off in Italy: CioccolaTorta. Thousands of recipes will be tasted, but only the few winners of the competition will then challenge a special guest.

And now that Turin has been nominated World Design City 2008, even chocolate will do its fair share to pay homage to this title. Piazza San Carlo will be the setting where master chocolate chefs will exhibit their works based on the creations of Turin food designers. And, for the second consecutive year, there will be a competition limited to the students of the European Design Institute.

Waiting for… CioccolaTÒ 2006

24 January 2006

CHOCOSHOW

Who killed the gianduiotto?
An extraordinary premier for the 2006 edition of CioccolaTÒ: a "dinner theatre” with a murder to be solved, featuring Giorgio Faletti. Faletti will also be in Piazza San Carlo to meet with visitors to the event.

The "hot" night
An entire night to enjoy hot chocolate, full of tales inspired by chocolate read by their authors, students of the Holden School, music, concerts, and street artists in downtown Turin, at the Quadrilatero Roman, until 5 o'clock in the morning.

The CioccolaTÒ shows
The CioccolaTÒ Shows are one of the most popular moments of the Turin audiences. Music, dance, and cabaret will be a part of this year’s program for CioccolaTÒ fans.
On the stage of Piazza San Carlo you will see celebrated names of Italian cabaret and emerging new musical groups.

THE CHOCOLATE ROADS

The workshops of the masters
The wonderful magic of chocolate will be the leitmotiv of this new CioccolaTÒ 2006 event.
The best artisans will take turns preparing their appetizing masterpieces in a specially-designed workshop.
This unique opportunity to better understand this extraordinary art was created by Confartigianato, with the support of the Confesercenti and Epat.

The Cocoa Spring
Yet another innovation of CioccolaTÒ 2006, realized with the collaboration of Confartigianato, will be the Cocoa Spring.
Here is an interactive museum where the processing of cocoa is illustrated with films, images, and objects and equipment, like the cocoa tree, the ripened pods, the fermenting beans, and sacks of cocoa.
A video will illustrate the entire process, from the tree to the chocolate bar.

The Chocolate Factory
Following the success that Confartigianato’s “The Chocolate Factory” enjoyed during the last edition, the idea was further developed for the 2006 edition, so that the public may enjoy a direct contact with chocolate production.