A Bar of Chocolate, Cologne · Travel Poster

Not just a view, the heritage behind it. Ella writes about the place, its hidden history, and the details that never make it into the guidebooks, all printed on the poster.

The smooth, melting texture everyone now takes for granted in a good bar of chocolate didn't exist until 1879, when a Swiss chocolatier named Rodolphe Lindt stumbled on a process called conching, hours of slow heating and grinding that transformed chocolate from a gritty, crumbly paste into something silky. Cologne's Chocolate Museum, opened in 1993 by a chocolate manufacturer who had always dreamed of a fountain that ran with the stuff continuously, now tells that story to over 650,000 visitors a year, and remarkably pays for itself entirely through ticket sales, a rarity for any museum anywhere.

An original illustration, available in colour or black and white, created for the Ella's Adventures travel poster series.

No frame included.

Please note that, to protect the original artwork from copyright infringement, the images shown on this website are low resolution. The poster you receive is printed in high resolution, with all the detail and clarity of the original.