Little town of gingerbread delights with its intricate features and tasty designs
With two chocolate trains snaking their way around 237 houses, a church and a castle, the little town created with a tonne of gingerbread is a winter wonderland for the few hundred gingerbread people living there.
To construct the castle, 3,689 tiny bricks of gingerbread were individually cut and glued together.
For the buildings, confectioners used 1.1 ton of gingerbread dough, 105 kg of honey and 32 kg of spices.
The little gingerbread town even has a system of lights that distinguishes night and day.
The town is the largest gingerbread model town and is made up of 237 houses, a fortress, a castle and is circled by a moving chocolate train.
The decorations were made with litres of icing producing from 308 eggs, 150 lemons and 36 kg of icing sugar.
Taking six months to build, each element of the gingerbread town was first baked and then properly shaped, depending on their use.
The Silesian gingerbread tradition dates back to the early 14th century when they were baked in huge, rectangular forms made of wood - the largest ones measuring as much as 105 cm tall.
Taking six months to build, each element of the gingerbread town was first baked and then properly shaped, depending on their use.
The winter gingerbread town is open to visitor every day until February 28th.
