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Since the beginning of the 90s in Modica, the company has promoted national and international gastronomic tourism, as well as cultural, bringing the chocolate tradition of Modica, dormant in those years, to the glories of the past. Franco Ruta, at the time owner of the chocolate shop, brought Modica
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Bonajuto he founded the current place but with the name of Caffè Roma, a meeting place of
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La dolceria
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Il biscotto di legno, Raffaele
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