Visiting Kremnica? Taste traditional potato-shaped sweets

The period manufactory has been opened to show to visitors popular sweets.

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Have you ever tried “krumpeľ” from Kremnica? An original confectionary production where visitors can see preparation of traditional local sweets has opened in Kremnica.

The Kremnica “krumpeľ”, ladyfingers filled with cream and wrapped in nut dough, recalls a potato with its colour and shape. In the Kremnica dialect, a potato is called “krumpeľ” and that is also the name of the sweets whose production can be seen in Kremnica.

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The manufacturing plant furnished like in the past will transport visitors back in time and show them the era when the confectioner Alois Atkáry lived and worked in Kremnica.

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