Warsaw opens doors to chocolate empire with new museum

Warsaw: For almost a century, the smell of chocolate was carried by the breeze in Warsaw s Kamionek neighbourhood, rising from the imposing Wedel fact...

Warsaw: For almost a century, the smell of chocolate was carried by the breeze in Warsaw's Kamionek neighbourhood, rising from the imposing Wedel factory -- the seat of a sweet-toothed country's most famous confectioner.

The giant white-walled plant has provided several generations of Poles with chocolate -- surviving the Second World War and political transformations -- with its sweets over time embodying national identity.

Its gates -- decorated with a giant W -- have been closed to the public for decades bar the odd school trip.

But this autumn, it has for the first time given a glimpse of life inside by opening its doors to house a chocolate museum.