Bruges - the chocolate capital

Bruges is an important economic center. B the end of the XX century outside the historic core of the city was built a modern seaport, making Bruges regained lost even in the Middle ages the role of trade of marine city.


The houses in Bruges are amazingly beautiful,and most importantly that they are all different. There is a very old, dark, former warehouses, with the date of construction on the facade, there is a newer, with bright doors and indispensable lace curtains.


According to historians from cooking, chocolate candy first made-in Belgium. So here it is cooked and all lyubimoe, delicious pralines – a blend of chocolate and grated nuts. In many small shops Bruges candies are prepared by hand, according to special recipes. Such a personal approach from cooking, no wonder these shops prefer to call on the French artistic style – “Atelier”. And could, by the way, called “pharmacies”. After the first chocolate in Belgium was doing exactly the pharmacists and considered it primarily a remedy.


Chocolates in the Belgian town of Bruges – is not a faceless bars that billions off the production line and relish all the same. It all depends on many nuances: mood kulinarka, precision small weight, the features of a new bag of cocoa beans. Perhaps today at work she heard a song that reminded her of a long forgotten love and salty tears added spice to the sweet candy? Or her hand trembled, measuring the essence of tropical flowers, and chocolate, which was only to cast light dreams will give colorful dreams the whole night.




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