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Hamrun Chocolate Festival in Hamrun
The Hamrun Chocolate Festival is a themed food event held in Hamrun, a densely built working-class town just outside Valletta known locally for its main shopping street, Strait Street's continuation, Marina Street. The festival brings chocolate stalls and family activities into the town centre, following the same small-scale format seen in similar food festivals across Maltese towns.
Hamrun grew up in the nineteenth century as an industrial and working-class suburb of Valletta, its long main street lined with shops, bars and family businesses that still give the town a busier, more commercial feel than the quieter villages further from the capital.