Come and discover a city that puts you in a good mood!
It is often said that if the desires had a taste it would be that of sugar. So Prato is just the city of desires, a city to discover with the palate! A sweet-hearted city with an excellent generation of pastry chefs and master chocolatiers who make Prato the capital of the Italian sweet valley, known for a rarity of the nineteenth-century traditional pastry, the Peaches of Prato. Not to mention the Prato biscuit, also known as cantuccio. Over 60 confectioneries, biscuit factories and bakeries in the city and its surroundings. A record!But the record is above all in the quality, that makes our confectioners are champions all over the world. Paolo Sacchetti of the Nuovo Mondo confectionery, once again, has obtained the legendary "three cakes" and is included in the national ranking "Confectioners & Confectioneries 2019" compiled by Gambero Rosso. Luca Mannori with its IGP hazelnut cream with pure 72% Ocumare won the first place at the International Chocolate Awards, an event attended by 50 countries and over 2500 products. But the surprises do not stop here, our confectioneries are spread throughout the territory of Prato, amaretti and carmignanini are made in the Medicean Municipalities, zuccherini, stones of Calvana, panfrutto and tasty mantovane in the Bisenzio Valley. In Montemurlo, refined confectioneries are in the place of laboratories and artisanal warehouses and where a new generation of pastry chefs and barmen using local products create and experiment new delicacies.