You most likely consider rice whenever you consider Sueca, positioned as it’s in the course of the rice paddies to the south of Valencia. However, as we discovered on a go to to the museum/manufacturing facility, rice is part of the manufacturing course of, though not as an ingredient.
After we consider chocolate factories, inevitably we consider Charlie Wonka, and so do the employees in Sueca, as posters of the movie (the Johnny Depp model) are to be seen on the partitions within the part the place a lone worker cheerfully rolls out the chocolate bars into their conventional cigar-like form.
The opposite picture that springs to thoughts whenever you go to the museum, positioned in a chic townhouse within the centre of the city, is of a torture chamber, the place most of the conventional implements used within the manufacturing course of might simply as simply be tailored and utilized by the Spanish Inquisition or the same organisation.
Upstair you will discover a piece devoted to all types of posters and promoting from the final hundred years.
The Comes household have been concerned in chocolate making since earlier than 1870, the primary artisan being Pedro Comes Chulia (1858-1940). The present manufacturing facility at C/ San José 29 was arrange by Encarna Comes Matoses and Pedro Melero Pastor in 1966.
In the present day their kids proceed to run the manufacturing facility, museum and store, producing a variety of merchandise for luxurious consuming, and in addition candles and cleaning soap, which scent scrumptious though consuming them is just not really useful.
The guided excursions clarify the historical past of chocolate making and the processes which produce the completely different merchandise.
These embody stone chocolate with carob, which was very succesful through the post-war, and a range utilizing tiger nuts. There may be additionally chocolate honey which can be utilized to soften, unfold or combine.
There are chocolate bars with many flavours, together with a spicy selection
Visits and excursions can be found from Monday to Friday:
10:30 to 13:30
16:00 to 20:00
Saturday:
11:00 to 14:00
17:00 to 20:00
Sundays:
12:00 to 14:00
C/ Sant Josep, 29
46410 Sueca (Valencia)
Cellphone quantity: 96 170 19 42
information@chocolatescomes.com
