by Mia Taylor
Last updated: 6:00 PM ET, Tue October 3, 2017
Can chocolate lovers ever have enough chocolate?
The answer to that question is always no.
With that in mind, here's a name to remember: Chez Camille Bloch.
According to Lonely Planet, Chez Camille Bloch is a new museum dedicated entirely to chocolate that will open October 21 in Bern Switzerland. Created by the chocolatier of the same name, it will offer courses about chocolate, as well as chocolate tastings. There will also be an onsite shop (so you can pick up some chocolate goodies to go) and a café (where you can sample even more chocolate.)
The project has been in the making for nearly three years and the facility is being designed to accommodate about 100,000 visitors annually.
Switzerland is a natural fit for such a chocolate-centric experience. The country is, after all, known for making some of the finest chocolate in the world and has developed into something of a chocolate hotspot.
And Switzerland also knows how to showcase its national mastery of chocolate.
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Among the existing chocolate focused offerings is a Chocolate Train, which brings passengers from Montreux to a chocolate factory; Schokoland in Lugano, which offers a history of chocolate as well as free tastings and the interactive chocolate ride at Verkehrshaus, in Lucerne, according to Lonely Planet.
As if that weren't enough chocolate accomplishments for one country, just a few weeks ago a Zurich-based chocolatier, Barry Callebaut, invented pink chocolate. Yes, pink. It's made with a ruby cocoa bean and is said to taste sour and sweet, with a hint of berry.
Some of the country's other notable stops for chocolate fans include Confiserie Sprüngli (which has been around since 1836 and has locations throughout the country) and the family-owned Laderach in Zurich, as TravelPulse's Gabe Zaldivar reported.
Geneva's Auer Chocolatier is also popular with chocolate lovers far and wide. A family-owned business, it dates back to 1939. As its website states, its chocolates are meticulously made by hand.
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