Gorrotxategi Confectionery Museum, the sweetest museum of Tolosa.

Taste the most famous chocolate of Tolosa while you learn about the history of the Gorrotxategi family, visit the Gorrotxategi Confectionery Museum.

During our stay in Tolosa, the old capital of Gipuzkoa, land of good beans, the best steaks and exquisite sweets, we could not miss our appointment with the museum that the Gorrotxategi family has in the center of the town.

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The Gorrotxategi family is famous in Tolosa, in Gipuzkoa, in Euskal Herria and all over the world. A family that has dedicated every minute of their lives to the chocolate confectionery with headquarters in Tolosa, 3 generations that have known how to make last in time the quality of those products that were born in “the Americas” with the exportation of cocoa and ended in Tolosa in the hands of great confectioners.

This museum, currently operated by the tourist office of Tolosa (Tolosaldea Tour) and privately owned (Gorrotxategi family), is one of the few places in the world where we can see the evolution of sweets and the confectioner’s trade.

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Location: The museum occupies the space formerly occupied by the family’s old workshop (today located on the outskirts of Tolosa) in the historic center of Tolosa. Although it is not a very large space, it houses more than 400 pieces of great value, tools, containers, mechanical machines and a long etcetera that we hope you will get to know on your next visit to the Basque Country.

Exhibition: The Gorrotxategi Confectionery Museum shows us the evolution of the confectioners’ working techniques between the 14th and 19th centuries, a transformation that they narrate to us through the utensils that their own hands used over time.

Gorrotxategi Museum interior

The exhibition is divided into several sections depending on the use that was given to the gadgets present in each of them, thus, we find the sections of chocolate, wheat, sponge cake, liquor, cream, butter, ice cream, candy, nougat, honey and finally the wax, by the way, very curious this last section.

Candles, Gorrotxategi Museum

Basque culture and history: The culture and history of Euskal Herria around sweets comes to light thanks to this emblematic museum in Gipuzkoa, a museum to which our exclusive tourist accreditation “TurismoVasco Tiketa” has traveled.

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This museum has been visited by great personalities of the cultural scene of the Basque Country, among them, José Miguel Barandiarán and Jorge Oteiza, two great people who have praised the initiative to promote our sweet culture through this small corner in the center of Tolosa.

Jorge Oteiza and José Miguel Barandiarán, Gorrotxategi Museum

Building: When, due to its state of ruin, the building that for years housed the old 17th century confectionery of the Gorrotxategi (Xaxu) family was being demolished, one of the members of the family, José Mari, decided, aware of the importance of the establishment in part of Basque culture, to create the current Gorrotxategi Confectionery Museum.

Gorrotxateg Museum, Tolosa

Final touch: We could not leave the Gorrotxategi Confectionery Museum without tasting some of their products, and as a final touch, after the visit, we were offered a delicious chocolate (included in the entrance fee) to sweeten our visit to Tolosa.

Chocolate visits Gorrotxategi museum

An atypical, unique museum in the interior of Gipuzkoa, are you going to miss it? Come to the Gorrotxategi Confectionery Museum!