Valor Chocolate Factory Museum: Free Tour & Free chocs!

joville (0)(1)in #travel • 7 years ago (edited)

Greetings Steemians!

Had a wonderful visit yesterday at Valor Chocolate Factory Museum in Villajoyosa, the hometown of Valor chocolate. Valor is known as Spain’s oldest chocolate producer since 1881 and it's main factory in Villajoyosa has a wonderful free guided tour in english (11am & 4pm) and spanish.

How to Take the Valor Chocolate Factory Tour?
If your visiting Benidorm, Alicante or the sorrounding area, take the train going to Villajoyosa. The Factory Museum is just 5 minutes walk from the train station. Infact, you can smell the chocolate aroma as you step out from the train! And when you arrive at the Valor main gate, all you have to do is get your tour pass # from a machine and wait for the tour guide.

The tour has 4 parts. First, the friendly & accomodating tour guide will guide you into a movie room where you’ll see a 15 minute film about the history of Valor.

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Second, the Valor Chocolate Museum. See my short video here.
The guide begins the museum tour by giving you information about the Valor family and how they started their chocolate business. Then you can wander around the museum by yourself to see the antique chocolate making equipment, see displays of chocolate molds, view lots of old photographs of the Valor family in the early 1900s and even see how they made chocolate back then.

The last part of the tour is into the factory itself. Unlike some tours where you walk through the factory floor, at Valor you’re shown up a flight of stairs to a glassed in corridor, where you look down on the factory floor, seeing every step of the chocolate making process. Valor does this to avoid distractions to their workers and also to avoid any contamination of their chocolate. On this stage of the tour, you are not allowed to take photographs.

The tour ends at the chocolate shop where you can see the sculptures made of chocolates and the table filled with different varieties of rich, high quality free chocolates waiting for you (taste all you want! & no pressure for buying :D) . The chocolate price in the factory is of course cheaper than outside.

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all you need is (love) chocolates! 😃😉

Happy Steeming!
@joville

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