Museum of Chocolate

A highlight for the two young Ohkuysen girls on their first trip to Spain last week was an afternoon trip to the Chocolate Museum in the Barrio Gotico of Old Barcelona. The entrance ticket (less than 4 euros each) was a chocolate bar! The history of the arrival of the cocoa bean in Europe from the New World was interesting enough, but the displays of "monas", a Catalan invention made for Easter Monday, were impressive! A "mona" is an elaborate chocolate sculpture, often of famous building, people, cartoon characters, etc. They are displayed in pastry and chocolate shops during the Easter season and are purchased by godparents to give to their godchildren on Easter Monday, often containing whole eggs corresponding to the age of the child. These below are all made out of chocolate! Enjoy!

A bullfight:





Modeled after the famous lizard at the entrance to Parc Guell in Barcelona!





Old posters:





La Sagrada Familia:












Hungry, anyone?!?

More later...

Location:Barcelona, Spain