Welcome to Umbria, where even hills are sweet, a caress for the eyes. We are in the most authentic Italy, the one that only the most curious travellers will be able to discover.
PERUGIA’S EUROCHOCOLATE
Perugia is a lively town, like modern urban centres, as cosmopolitan as the most ancient and prestigious University for Foreigners of the whole country can be. But at the same time, it's a mystical town, cozy like a medieval hamlet.
Here, from November 15 to 24, the largest and most renowned European festival dedicated to Chocolate took place, attracting over a million visitors. Created by architect Eugenio Guarducci in 1994, Eurochocolate is an event dedicated to the Italian and international chocolate tradition.
The history that links chocolate to Perugia is relatively recent, but so powerful that it has been consecrated as the City of Chocolate. This is thanks both to an incredible entrepreneurial and artisanal history, which revolves around the figure of Luisa Spagnoli, and to the strength of this iconic product, which in Italy has found the conditions to be exalted and sublimated.
Chocolate is a living material, it has its own internal language. Only when it feels itself the object of intimate attention, and only then, does it cease to enchant the throat and begins to dialogue with the senses. (Alexander Von Humboldt)
UMBRIA: A JOURNEY AMONG SENSES
Umbria’s link with tobacco is much older, appearing here as early as 1514 thanks to the monk Tornabuoni. Even today it represents an economic resource and a “made in Italy” showpiece, thanks to the particular attention to sustainability and exceptional raw materials. In Umbria, various types of very high quality cigars are produced - with the most rigorous respect for the environment and the territory, each with its own personality.
Olympia Waters invites all the chocolate lovers to live an unforgettable experience of taste and humanity, in search of one’s own ideal chocolate. A journey among senses, through precious and rare ingredients, in order to have the innermost and intimate strings resonating.
But also tobacco and “made in Italy” spirits lovers will be satisfied by this exclusive proposal, in an evening under the sign of contemplation and of the search for flavours and fragrances for the few.