The celebrations were officially opened with the presentation of the “Expo 2015” fruit sculpture composed of watermelons and melons offered by Coldiretti, and this was followed by Sala tasting some of the flavours offered by the companies Rigoletto, Pernigotti, Grom and Piazzetta Piacenza, united in Piazza Italia in a Carousel of ice-cream carts, representing the master ice-cream makers of the Pavilions of Expo Milano 2015. The entire afternoon was animated by the initiatives promoted in the Cocoa and Chocolate Cluster, with tasting of typical ice-creams from Ecuador and Choco Cocktails prepared by the barman Daniele Losquadro, in the Cereals and Tubers Cluster, where Rigoletto offered visitors he opportunity to taste a typical desert of Milanese tradition, panettone with ice-cream, and in the Bio-Mediterraneum Cluster, where the Sicily Region offered refreshing slushes made with citrus fruits and watermelon.