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1,000 pounds of chocolate, 3,000 chocolate logs make up candy village

Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 | 2 a.m.

Sylvain Bortolini started planning Christmas in September. As executive pastry chef for the Bellagio, Bortolini spent summer and fall creating a massive candy village that's now the centerpiece of the casino's holiday display at its Conservatory Botanical Gardens. The Chocolate Village display debuted Friday and will remain through Jan. 6. It is the hotel's first candy village. About 18,000 people are expected to visit each day. For months, pastry chefs molded and painted chocolate logs and kneaded sugar dough candy canes for eight houses and a train station that decorate the garden. They cover 600 square feet and each includes ...

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By mred

Dec. 1, 2012

10:33 a.m.

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sugar kills more people world wide than opiates
By STARBEAMS

Dec. 5, 2012

1:45 p.m.

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Bellagio has not posted any pictures of the conservatory this christmas. The pictures are pocket size on the Belle's website; pleasse post on the lvs website for better viewing. Or better yet, post on the lvj for better cost.