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Exhibition of flowers and plants on the Navigli in April.

The famous Sicilian pastry with its fantastic treats, especially cannoli and cassata. Everything here is handcrafted manufacturing, often handmade, which has become very rare even in Sicily.

Pasticceria Cremeria Buonarroti is a patisserie offering a variety of delicious pastries. You can enjoy your desserts on site, order them online for home delivery or pick them up at the drive-in. In addition to pastries, Pasticceria Cremeria Buonarroti also offers savory dishes. You can relax in their tea room and enjoy a hot drink accompanied by an irresistible pastry, or get together for a convivial aperitif. They also offer a catering and home delivery service using their own resources and staff.

One of the most famous wine and distilleries in Milan. Opened at the beginning of 1900, the Cotti family has run the shop since 1952. A professionalism that has been handed down through the generations and a friendliness that has never been compromised. Don't hesitate to ask the owners for advice, as they are very competent. Thousands of bottles of wine, the best brandies, high quality extra-virgin oil and balsamic vinegar, as well as a few delicacies (rare pâtés, cheeses and smoked salmon), all displayed in five Art Deco rooms and a vast vaulted cellar.

One of the best cheese shops in the city of Aosta. The shop offers a wide range of dairy products from the region but also from the neighbouring Piedmont and Savoy, so you can enjoy more! Particular attention is paid to mountain cheeses from family farms. The establishment also offers a snack service, with local specialities in the spotlight. Of course, we can only recommend cheese and cold cuts from the Valle d'Aosta accompanied by a good wine from the region.

Founded in 1957, this cooperative has several sales outlets in the valley, including one in Valpelline. The latter features a small exhibition presenting the structure, its history, its territory and how milk is transformed into cheese. If you want to get to the heart of the production and maturing of this emblematic Valle d'Aostan cheese, you can also take a guided tour of the production workshop. Reservations are highly recommended!

Numerous weekly markets offer the opportunity to buy Valle d'Aostan specialities from producers. Monday: rue Mont-Fallère; Tuesday: rue Vevey, place Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, rue Lucat, rue Mazzini; Wednesday: rue Saint-Martin-de-Corléans; Thursday: boulevard de la Paix; Friday: rue Montagnayes; Saturday: rue Vevey, place Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto and rue Lucat. The Halles in place Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto are open Monday to Saturday. A farmers' market, "Lo Tsaven - Campagna Amica", is held in Place Chanoux, with plenty of local organic produce.

A very famous oenothèque rich in Italian and foreign brands. This store hides a curiosity: a wine museum with over 1 200 bottles of wine bottles from the th century to the present. To visit it, ask the owners.

Clothes, bags, shoes (watch out for counterfeits), linen and kitchen utensils at very good prices all along Viale Papiniano and Piazza Sant'Agostino, between fruit, vegetables and cheese stalls. It may not be particularly picturesque, but this market still has some bargains in store. On Tuesdays, it's more popular with the locals, while on Saturdays it's mostly tourists. More than a kilometer of shopping where you always end up with a bargain.

A historical café in Milan, Taveggia was completely renovated during its 100 years of age in 2009. Very frequented by the judges of the nearby courthouse, this elegant and refined coffee offers a wide range of brioches and cakes for breakfast or tea, a good aperitif buffet and a restaurant. 

A historic Turin patisserie, opened in the early ^20th century by pastry chef Gustavo Pfatsich, who brought his love of gourmet pastry-making with him from the mountains. Housed in a superb Liberty building, under the arcades, it's a veritable kingdom of gourmet delights. Try the cream spreads and the Fenice cake with meringue and fruit. People come from far and wide to try diamanti arriba, filled chocolates in the shape of precious stones, and marrons glacés, some of the best in town. And at the end of 2024, the patisserie will open a museum dedicated to chocolate!

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Directly from Sicily, the best granita in the city.

Try fior di panna, sabaion and amaretto scents, Noisettes hazelnuts and mandarin sherbet.

The oldest bakery in Turin where you can find special breads and famous grissini whose stirati are 1,60 m long.

At Gobino, chocolate isn't just a quality treat, it's a sensory experience where every bite represents hours of work and research. Excellence begins with the raw materials: cocoa, selected from the finest vintages, hazelnuts, essential to the famous gianduiotto, typical of the Turin tradition, and the best flavours to make each chocolate a unique piece. Add to this the trendy design, and the packaging that would be worthy of being displayed in a museum for its elegant simplicity.

Established in 1880, Gertosio is a historic pasticceria in the center of Turin. Here, you can stock up on quality spreads - a pure delight made with cocoa and Piedmont hazelnuts, guaranteed palm-oil free - and, of course, exceptional homemade chocolates, including traditional Turin gianduiotti in their golden wrappers (there's even a giant version for aficionados!) and dark chocolate bars with whole hazelnuts that are more than appetizing! The perfect place to stock up...

Franck Thollet, originally from Savoie, helps his father-in-law cultivate the land belonging to his wife's family. In his store, he'll give you a warm welcome and tell you all about the history of his plots. The Roncil family has been here for 8 generations. Their vines are very old. Production is 6,500 bottles a year from 2 hectares. The grape varieties are autochthonous, such as avana and becquet, with other Piedmontese varieties: barbera, dolcetto and neretta cunese. Fine vintages and two ice wines, harvested in winter.

On the lakeside, we have tested a lot this ice-cream parlour and we can assure you: it is one of the best in this region of Italy! We come there to get drunk of the numerous fruit flavors or we opt for a more original ice cream as, for example, those with tiramisu, with honey or with cinnamon... The pistachio ice cream is simply excellent and reveals all the flavors. Unforgettable! Il Gelato dei Masters also offers very good milkshakes. Very friendly staff. Attention, payment only in cash.

Next to the restaurant-osteria del Castello, the boss opened a cellar, the Magnum kingdom, where you can taste the Italian wine of your choice. Wines of Alba and Monferrato, Barbera d'Alba, Nebbiolo d'Alba. The cellar has a terrace where you can enjoy an aperitif.

A pastry shop renowned for its excellent chocolate since 1915, it is one of the Piedmont capital's institutions. Try all the wonderful specialties of Turin's great chocolate-making tradition, especially the alpini, chocolates filled with liqueur, and, of course, the famous hazelnut giandujotti. All treats are made from cocoa beans roasted right here in the nearly 1,000^m2 laboratory. Everything is absolutely delicious, whatever you choose... A benchmark!

Renowned for its many melting chocolates and marrons glacés (a marvel, arguably the best in the city!) since 1836, this is where Cavour used to order for his receptions as a minister. The glorious patisserie now has a chic little counter where you can sip a good coffee or cappuccino in the morning. From April to November, if you take a seat on the lovely terrace overlooking the Piazza San Carlo, you'll be served a number of dishes as light as they are refined, ranging from club sandwiches to smoked salmon with salad.

You can buy fontina and other local cheeses at very interesting prices.

Morgex is renowned for producing an extraordinary white wine. At this local winery, you can taste and buy these famous Mont-Blanc white wines, from some of Europe's highest vineyards and made from the precocious prié blanc grape variety. Four dry whites, six crémants vinified using the traditional method, and a rarity (vin de glace, whose frozen grapes are harvested between December and January) make up the product range of this high-altitude winery.

In the main pedestrian street, this store is a must. You come here to window-shop, almost literally, as the pretty delicacies are displayed in the window. You'll find all the finest sweets, both Valle d'Aostan and Italian. At the top of the list is Mont-Blanc artisan chocolate, available in decorative bars, followed by cookies, jams, honey, sweet and savoury creams, caramels, wines, liqueurs... More than a chocolatier, a true delicatessen. For gourmands, it's enough to make you lose your head!

The Panizzi brothers are highly regarded in the valley, first as producers and then as sellers of their own products: fontina cheese, hard cheese made from the milk of cows fed peacefully in the high mountain pastures (PDO), fresh soft cow's milk cheese, goat's milk cheese, artisanal yoghurts.... They have diversified their range to include the best cheeses from Savoie, Haute-Savoie and the Swiss Valais. The selection is extraordinarily rich: impossible not to find what you're looking for, or rather... impossible not to buy it all!

Wide variety of cheeses, including tommes.

In a colourful atmosphere, you can buy typical products from the valley: cheese, sausages and country wines.

We can buy different products, including the famous cheese la. Also, possible visits by appointment.

This small family pastry shop (also caterer), well known since its creation in 1958, is full of very appetizing sweets, all handmade. Well located under the arcades, in a wooded setting, it allows you to take a comforting break. Fruit pastes with orange, melon, peach or banana flavour. It is the ideal place to discover Italian and especially Piedmontese pastries, including Pan della Marchesa, the house specialty with hazelnuts, and Lose golose, Susa cakes with almond, cocoa and peach flavor.

Both a restaurant and a wine cellar, you'll find one of the best selections of wines in the region. You'll find a warm ambience in the large dining room, with beautiful bottles displayed on the shelves along the walls. On the menu: tagliatelle, ravioli, medaglioni, veal escalopes and prime rib, accompanied by seasonal vegetables including excellent mushrooms. Try the wild boar ravioli or the speck and red radish ravioli. Tasting of grands crus in the stone cellar in the basement.

In this small, friendly cheese dairy, situated in a pedestrian street in the centre of Torre Pellice, you will find all the typical cheeses of the valley, including the famous saras del fèn. It is a ricotta cheese made from cow or ewe's milk, which was once surrounded by hay by shepherds to protect it during transport, and which gives it its herbaceous notes. It is made every year in the month of May. But there is also a wide range of cheeses, very nicely selected, from all over the Botte, cow, sheep, goat...

Allow yourself a moment in this street adjacent to the popular Corso Cavour. Sitting at the table of this modern stall, enjoy a gourmet break at breakfast time, over a cappuccino, hot chocolate, tea or homemade fruit juice, accompanied by a generous selection of pastries. If you choose lunch or an evening aperitif, opt for a beer or glass of wine with a snack brimming with vegetables or charcuterie.

A piece of Bergamo history dated 1476. Situated in the enchanting Piazza Vecchia, the retro and elegant décor will take you back to an atmosphere of yesteryear. The bar offers excellent pastry specialties such as torta donizetti, the traditional local sweet cake with apricots and pineapple slices. There is also a fast food restaurant at lunchtime. You will enjoy the beauty of the setting, although the service is sometimes a little slow. And if you are in too much of a hurry, you can simply lean back at the bar to have a coffee!

Since 1957, Faravelli is to gastronomy what Cartier is to jewellery. In the showcase meats, hams, cheeses and succulent prepared dishes (white bean pasta, soups, roast portions and so on) with products of the highest quality and freshness. Within a few metres, there is also a delicatessen selling all kinds of seasonal delicacies, and a well-stocked wine and champagne library, which completes the setting. You come here for special occasions as well as for your lunch sandwich.

"We do it in front of everyone" is the motto of this amazing café, at the crossroads between an ice cream parlour, a restaurant and a pastry shop. Cioccolati Italiani does everything possible to fulfil its mission of promoting chocolate culture: a view of the production laboratory, dark and white chocolate fountains (where you can fill your cone), ice-cream tasting and a pleasant veranda. A real temple dedicated to chocolate served in all its variations; gelato, however, wins first prize: smooth, velvety, creamy, a real treat!

For more than 40 years, this artisanal pastry shop has excelled in its house specialty, margheritine, small light and melting cookies first made in 1868 for the Queen of Italy, Margherita. They are now the pride of the city. You can't leave Stresa without tasting them. The cookies can be bought by the gram. To make a gift, they are packed in a pretty cardboard box with the representation of the city in engraving. Other tempting sweets: panettone, filled mini-croissants, tarts...

Quality, tradition, know-how and artisanal production... No, this isn't a fashion store, it's the cheese magician's boutique. At Borgiattino, you'll find something to make the good old French cheese platter swoon. Since 1927, the choice of products is incredible. You'll fall for caciotta, caprini, asiago... Cheeses, too, have their seasons, and every month the store puts one in the spotlight. You can taste all these good things cooked or presented with care in the restaurant.

The pastry tradition of the Novara region has ancient origins. The Novaresi (and Italians in general) are fond of dry cookies and shortbread of all kinds. In Novara, the Camporelli cookie factory has been nurturing this tradition since 1852. Today, Ambrogio Fasola, a descendant of the Camporelli family, perpetuates this know-how with passion. Simple ingredients and rigorously hand-crafted production form the basis of Biscottini di Novara, the company's specialty (up to 100,000 cookies are produced here every day).

A true Ivrea institution, this glorious pastry owes its fame to Torta 900, patented by Umberto Balla in 1972. Its gourmet recipe, however, dates back to the ^19th century, created by Ottavio Bertinotti, and the secret of its manufacture has been jealously guarded ever since. It's made up of two discs of sponge-like, but lighter, cocoa dough, topped at the last minute with chocolate cream and dusted with powdered sugar. The result is really delicate and melts in the mouth.

Did you know that it is in Verona that the pandoro is produced, this sweet star-shaped bun sprinkled with icing sugar, a must for Christmas? Well, the Barini pastry shop has been making it its speciality for over 50 years. Just a few steps from the bullring, Barini is also a cafeteria where you can sip a creamy cappuccino or a strong espresso and bite into little cakes with names as bewitching as their flavour: Romeo's Kisses (with almond and butter cream), Juliet's Kisses (with hazelnut and chocolate cream).

A paradise for gourmets, Mangili is the perfect address if you want to take home a small basket of Bergamasque flavours. From the butcher's department you will choose the Bergamo sausage, among the pasta one or two portions of fresh casoncelli (to be eaten quickly!), among the cheeses a nice slice of taleggio and, on the delicatessen shelves, some nougats or dry cakes. We let ourselves be advised by the boss, very friendly and good advice. Some good local wines. And then, of course, let yourself be tempted by everything else!

Simply delicious! What more can be said about the products of this laboratory, which makes artisan pasta whose recipe has not changed over time? Agnolotti, raviolini, cappelletti, gnocchi: all Piedmontese specialties prepared with the freshest ingredients, from flour and eggs to fillings (meat, cheese or vegetable) and accompanied by 100% natural sauces. Enough to fill up your shopping basket before you leave - the pasta in question will last a few days!

This pretty boutique is a cheese shop, delicatessen and caterer in one. Here you'll find the best cheeses from the region, and indeed from all over Italy, to accompany cold meats and wine. Among the best cheeses of the region: bra, raschera, murazzano, Tumin del Mel, raw-milk goat's cheese, and many others. This is what makes you dare to discover new and delicious flavors! What's more, the staff are very helpful.

For a gourmet stopover during your day of sightseeing, don't miss the Almonte café-pâtisserie, which makes some of the best rum saluzzesi in the region. These delicious sweets are indeed the local specialty: pralines in a heart of rum-flavored cream, wrapped in meringue and dark chocolate... Pure pleasure! But the other patisseries are also worth a detour, each as pretty and tasty as the next. Everything is very fresh and the staff are really friendly. An excellent address!

MaCam is a gelateria like no other. The flavors of the moment are marked on a slate, and, surprise, alongside the classics, you can find some truly surprising tastes, such as carrot ice cream or basil and pine nuts! The ingredients used in our ice creams, smoothies and soups of the day are of the freshest quality, and you'll soon notice the difference when you taste them. And as the ingredients are only seasonal, there's no question of finding a melon or fig sorbet here during the winter!

A candied fruit merchant worthy of the Thousand and One Nights! The store alone is worth the detour: wooden counters, shelves covered with glass jars and marble worktops set a deliciously Belle Époque tone. Over a hundred varieties of dried and dehydrated fruit, including Thai papaya, Sicilian pistachios, Tuscan pine nuts, Calabrian figs, and even ginger, kumquat, cedar, wild strawberries and red berries. A brand whose quality has been guaranteed since 1908.

Since 1914, Latteria Sociale di Cameri has been producing Gorgonzola DOC in both mild and hot varieties. Gorgonzola accounts for 90% of production, but there are other equally tasty cheeses to discover, made entirely by hand. The region's small-scale farmers bring in milk from their cows, and for the lactose-intolerant, goat's milk has recently been added. There's also a small store to fill your basket.

Eataly's traditional format meets Caffè Vergnano. Here, you can find the very best of gastronomy in a large food market, choose from thousands of products and references of the finest Italian wines, and sample seasonal menus made with fresh regional produce. And, of course, stop off for an espresso or to try out the new specialties at Caffè Vergnano. On sunny days, take advantage of the outdoor area on the pedestrian street. Eataly enjoys a privileged position in the heart of Turin, surrounded by the most beautiful Baroque palaces.