Ghirardelli Square
Former chocolate factory turned waterfront shopping and dining complex in a landmark brick mill building.
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This guide to Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco starts under the big sign, with a chocolate maker from Rapallo, Italy, who came by way of Lima, Peru, to sell to gold rush miners rather than dig for gold. It follows his troubles in May 1851 and the corner of Kearny and Washington streets where he started again. Look for the clock tower on the old Pioneer Woolen Mill buildings, whose design borrows from a royal castle in France.
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