Weekend with the Festival of the ice cream at the Piazzale Michelangelo

Gelato Festival® 2014 elects to Florence the best ice cream makers in Europe: the appointment is by 12 al 14 September to Piazzale Michelangelo (time 12-24), for a weekend ready to satisfy not only the palate but also the eyes thanks to the extraordinary views of Florence that will give visitors.

“For the first time will be the most beautiful terrace in Florence to host this initiative - said the mayor Dario Nardella - and we are pleased to host this final after a long tour in Italy and Europe. Moreover, the Florentine cream, born in the time of Catherine de’ Medici is known all over the world. Next year we want to bring the Festival's Cascine Park. If we work well, we move in time, bring the Cascine Park Festival will be achievable. Moreover, the Park is already home to an agricultural or food and wine events such as Expo 2014 Rural Tuscany″.

We're In, Piazzale Michelangelo, the ice-cream makers who have won the 13 tappe del tour. I 17 the master ice cream, where di 6 Tuscan.

The festival, this year become international, hit ten cities Italian three European (Amsterdam, Nuremberg and Nice) to promote history, culture and innovation of high quality Italian ice cream.

The samples of 2014. The final challenge, in the shadow of the statue of David, will see the triumph of the master ice cream maker that will get the highest score, expressed by a jury of experts and journalists, combined with the public vote.

The gelato masters will compete in a stroke play competition with the likes of creativity that have participated and won in one or more stages of Gelato Festival 2014.

To defend the colors of Florence and Tuscany, there will be: Geri King Lagati de Gelato, Florence Cote d'Azur (winner in Nice), Ilaria Scarselli with the taste Dutchman (drop Amsterdam), Giampiero Burgio Gelato Gippino with the taste I'David (stage Lignano Sabbiadoro), Giampaolo Doti, gelato Ghibli Marina di Campo, Livorno with the Kremlin (winner at Lecce and Milan), Lorenzo Bellini gelato Laboratorio del Gelato (stage Viareggio) with Cream forgotten (Viareggio), Marco Tumino Gelato DolceAmaro of Viareggio with Cheesecake (stage Viareggio). We shall find also: Fabrizio Fenu, proclaimed in May 2014 best ice-cream in Italy, with the taste Pecorino Fiore Sardo DOP with caramelized pears honey On (Florence) and winner in Holland with Mullet Marceddì and candied celery (Amsterdam), Gianluca Tenuzzo with cream and wine MACARO mustazzolu (Lecce), Aroa Monk with Catalan cream and grape fragola (Rome), Roberto and Antonio Pascale Iacozzilli with Rome and surroundings (Rome), Francesco Mastroianni with Heart Grumpy (Milan), Marco Serra with Arancio Nero (Turin), Giovanna Bonazzi with the Sbrisolona 12 Apostles with white recioto (Verona, the only one to have won jury and popular together), Monsué Roll with Big Beauty (winner in Naples, Senigallia and Nuremberg), Antonio German Curcuma with sultanas (Naples) and Pierluigi D'Ambrosio with Honey Ailanthus with meringue (Lignano Sabbiadoro).

Gelato is Festival® ambassador of Italian ice cream, in this path has at his side Expo 2015 and ICE - Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian firms.

Admission to the festival is free of charge.

Access key for Festival® Gelato Gelato is the card that entitles you to five tastings and an Ice Cream Cocktail, ice cream in a drink version developed in collaboration with Locksmiths.

The card also allows you to take courses for a Day Sorbet and Ice Cream Show Cooking FB Village and vote the favorite flavor pocketing the card present in the ballot box at the checkout, to get a taste extra.

The card costs 7 euro, charging costs 5 euro.

All information on www.gelatofestival.it.

By the number 30 – The Year of 10/09/2014