The 3rd Chocolate Day

6-8 March, Palace of Art, square near Opera

For many centuries Lviv has been rejoicing citizens and guests with the unique aura made up by coffee and chocolate aromas felt everywhere in Lviv.

Delicious Lviv sweets have their long history. In the Middle Ages Lviv citizens tasted French and Oriental chocolate for the first time. Later local confectioners and bakery masters began to produce their own diverse sweet goodies. At the beginning of the XXth century there used to be a confectionery practically in every house of the modern Svoboda and Shevchenko Avenues. Lviv became the second European capital of chocolate, after Swiss Berne.

His Majesty Chocolate has won Lviv citizens’ hearts forever. People eat and drink, give it as gifts and enjoy themselves, they dream about chocolate. It is a necessary present while visiting friends, making proposals, having guests. Only in the sweetest city of Ukraine chocolate has its special name “chokolyada”. Lviv citizens have even invented their own currency - when they want to express gratitude to somebody, they usually say: “I owe you a chocolate”.

 Lviv Chocolate Day invites you to enjoy baking and tasting of the longest chocolate cake, to take chocolate making classes, observe chocolate fountains and sweets cascades, join competitions or games for children and adults, visit concerts and theatre performances. Nowhere else you can watch the whole process of chocolates producing at the impromptu chocolate factory, but in Lviv. Make a sweet present to your family, join Lviv Chocolate Day!