The boxes containing the Mandorlato of Cologna Veneta, the famous Italian Christmas candy, are caskets worthy of their precious contents. The refined decorations on the boxes did testify all over the world the outstanding figurative traditions of Italy. The first boxes, today unobtainable, were made of wood. But already between the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX, the famous tin boxes, the same luxurious package we know today, did appear.

 

They were so fine that in the yesterday's society, surely less opulent than our own, once the Mandorlato had finished, the box was used as a jewel-case or refined casket to show off. For a lot of them have been kept for a long time, they're not so difficult to be found at the flea-markets.

In recent years, the boxes of nougat candy Garzotto found a place also in movie history: these Italian candies were framed in the famous movie of Roberto Benigni "La vita è bella" (Life is beautiful)
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