🕒 Date of last update of the article: 15.02.2024 at 9:52 p.m | 🖋 Author: Viktor Shatrov
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🕒 Date of last update of the article: 15.02.2024 at 9:52 p.m | 🖋 Author: Viktor Shatrov
This patriotic mini-sculpture was installed on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. The author of the sculpture Mykhailo Kolodko compares the country to a bar of chocolate. Everyone loves chocolate, that’s why they want to eat it, “biting off” a good piece. Let our country always remain a whole tile, against which all kinds of ignoramuses will only break their teeth, getting something. This mini-sculpture is located on the square. Postman
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| 🗺 Location | N48°37′29″ E22°17′44″ |
| 🗽 Opening date | 08/24/2016 |
| 🧑 Sculptor | Mykhailo Kolodko |
| 🧭 Distance from the center of Uzhgorod | Near |
| 🚙 Road for | Car, on foot |
| 🏕 Stop with a tent | No |
| 🏡 Housing nearby | Uzhgorod |
| ☕ Cafes and shops | Uzhgorod |
Traditionally, Belgium and Switzerland are considered the most “chocolate” countries in Europe. For a long time in Europe, chocolate was considered a medical remedy, a mysterious overseas medicine, because it was tasteless. Only in the 17th century, it gradually began to be perceived as an expensive and refined drink of the nobility. This became possible thanks to the addition of new components, first of all sugar, and later milk.
Drinking chocolate began at the Spanish royal court, then in London, and then throughout Europe. The 19th century became revolutionary in the production of chocolate. In 1828, the engineer Konrad van Houten invented and patented a hydraulic press, which was used to extract oil from cocoa beans. In 1879, after eight years of experiments, the Swiss Daniel Peter first released solid milk chocolate on the market. In the same year, the inventor Rudolph Lindt from Bern, having made an original device, started producing chocolate fondat that melted in the mouth. This chocolate was so successful that twenty years later the Zurich confectioner Rudolf Sprüngli bought Lindt’s invention for 1.5 million francs, which could have bought 435 kilograms of gold.
An interesting legend about this mini-sculpture is told by Nadiya Popadiuk in her book “Uzhgorod – the world capital of mini-sculptures”. According to this legend, chocolate first came to Ukraine in 1921, when it was personally brought to Uzhgorod by Tomas Masaryk, a philosopher and the first president of the Czechoslovak Republic. He arrived by car from Mykhailivtsi to the district administration, where he delivered a short speech about the political, social, and cultural prospects of the region. In the county seat, the Czechoslovak president talked to the representatives of fifteen local institutions and organizations in order of standing order and gave each of them a bar of chocolate.
In memory of Masaryk’s visit, a mini-sculpture in the form of a chocolate bar was installed on the stone wall of Postova Square. In August 2016, the talented Uzhgorod sculptor Mykhailo Kolodko reworked this sculpture, depicting it in the shape of the territory of Ukraine, as a symbol of the unity of our state, which “is like chocolate that someone wants to bite.”
| 🔰 Start | From the mini-sculpture of Ferenc Liszt |
| 🚶 Walking distance | 160 m |
| 🕐 Approximate time | 2 minutes |
| ⬇⬆ Rise | Mostly without ups and downs |
Author of the article: Viktor Shatrov
Number of articles: 1100+
Knowledge of languages:: Ukrainian, English
Favourite quote: “Travelling – the only thing that makes you richer“
He was born and lived all his life in Uzhhorod. He graduated with a gold medal from Uzhhorod School No. 1 named after Taras Shevchenko (now Uzhhorod Lyceum named after Taras Shevchenko). He studied at the History Department of UzhNU, graduating with honours in 2009. He worked as a senior researcher at the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, a lecturer at the East European Slavic University.
