Next stop was Perugia, home of Perugina chocolate and home of my cousin Marco. After spending the morning doing laundry in the nearby town of Santa Maria Angela, we made the 20 minute drive to Assisi. We spent a couple of hours walking the main downtown pedestrian street of Corso Vanucci. In the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, they have the wedding ring of the Virgin Mary stored in a vault with 17 locks. Perugians stole it from a nearby town in the 1400s.
Next we drove south to San Sisto for a tour of the Perugina chocolate factory. The tour started off great with a free buffet of chocolate items. The most famous item they make is the Baci candy which is milk chocolate and hazelnut. We learned all about the process for making chocolate, candy, and baked items. They make 150 different products in this 80,000 square meter factory (10,000 meters bigger than our Caterpillar factory in Suzhou).
At dinnertime we met my cousin Marco who lives in Perugia with his family. Perugia is a big university town and Marco went to school here. He stayed on in Perugia and now works for an environmental engineering company nearby.
Next we drove south to San Sisto for a tour of the Perugina chocolate factory. The tour started off great with a free buffet of chocolate items. The most famous item they make is the Baci candy which is milk chocolate and hazelnut. We learned all about the process for making chocolate, candy, and baked items. They make 150 different products in this 80,000 square meter factory (10,000 meters bigger than our Caterpillar factory in Suzhou).
At dinnertime we met my cousin Marco who lives in Perugia with his family. Perugia is a big university town and Marco went to school here. He stayed on in Perugia and now works for an environmental engineering company nearby.
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