Elisa and the chocolate

It could be nothing but a success in the city that has always traded silk, spices and other exotic things with the east.

Chocolate ...

In the seventeenth century, cocoa arrived in Tuscany thanks to the Florentine merchant Francesco d'Antonio Carletti. In the Central National Library of Florence numerous writings testify, starting from the 1600 of the heated debate about chocolate and its consumption. What is certain is that the beneficial effects of chocolate were immediately evident, first of all the calming one ... for diets there is always time.

Barga Chocolate

December 8 and 9 everyone was waiting for him since the wool sweater has replaced the bikini ... when the costume trial is far away, Barga Chocolate arrives, the 13th edition of the Chocolate Festival in the historic center of Barga.

The stands of the event arranged along the streets of the country, will be open from 10 to 20.

Al Desco!

The Desco 2018
From Friday to Sunday during the first two weekends of December.

As in the calendar degli eventi  Year of Italian food, opens, Friday November 30th at 11:00 The Desco 2018, the exhibition dedicated to flavors and knowledge, scheduled for November 30th, 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 December 2018 at Real Collegio in Lucca .

Cirò Revolution!

The protagonists are wines and winemakers in Cirò Revolution, the manifestation that the Ais delegation of Lucca will host on Thursday 22nd November at 8.30 pm at the Casa del Boia, bringing to Lucca a little of Calabria.

Cirò Revolution is a movement born from the bottom, from the vines, and that brings together small producers of the Calabrian DOC who are trying to enclose in their bottles an authentic expression of Gaglioppo, one of the main autochthonous vines of the region.

Shopping a the Farm

If the citizen does not go to the countryside it is the campaign to go to the city.

Saturday, September 15 from 15:00 in the afternoon until 20:00, at the Pulia Market, you can see, taste and buy agricultural products of some local companies.