Oh chocolate. Oh pastry. This sweet palace was just a few yards from our hotel on the corner and we…read morebought a few boxes of chocolates for hospital staff to say thanks for the kindness I was shown. It's a rather large shop, big windows, lots of natural light. The was a dear elderly lady behind the counter, who was very kind and a lovely smile. If we bought a box of chocolates she was gift us a chocolate. I got a few pastries one evening for a snack with coffee in our room and she added extra in. How sweet. How Italian motherly. We also bought chocolates for ourselves to get by during our unplanned Trieste stay. We found Trieste delightful. The chocolates here are chiefly from the large industrial producers like Bari - it's not a place where chocolate is made indoors - and the rule of thumb is about €20 a kilo.