Florence Markets - Mercato Centrale
Inside Mercato Centrale you can find truffle oil, fresh pasta, Breseola which i love, fruit and veg, cheeses and more. There is a great coffee place and you can order fresh pasta and eat at a makeshift restaurant right next to the shop. Outside is a sort of flea market where, with a bit of haggling, you can pick up some great leather souvenirs.
Seeing Michelangelo's David
OK well this is a bit artsy, but its David, i mean come on, he is HOT! If you have a boyfriend, its guilt-free ogling ;) Yes i do realise I'm talking about a marble statue and no I'm not ashamed.
Watching people draw the Ponte Vecchio
OK this is a sneaky one too. In my defence, i cant draw for shite so seeing someone else contentedly sketching a scene or recreating popular paintings is amazing. The Ponte Vecchio is a lovely bridge too so i can understand why people would want to try to capture it.
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| The Ponte Vecchio, Florence |
Re-enacting A Room with a View.
If you haven't read the book or seen the movie, all you need to know is that there is a scene where a boy throws the girls postcards into the Arno and then grabs her and kisses her passionately. Girls, get your boys on to this bridge and re-enact the scene! Boys....don't miss an opportunity ;)
Seeing the tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo Machiavelli at Santa Croce
There is something pretty cool (and a bit morbid) about seeing the tombs of names that i have heard so often that i often forget that these were real people - dead people, but real, not fiction.
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| Galileo |
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| Michelangelo |
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| Dante |
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| Machiavelli |
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| Rossini |
Weird and wonderful street signs
These might be hard to find but you might stumble across them if you keep an eye out. Someone with a sense of humour and a good eye for design came up with these and, you have to admit, they are clever. Doubt the authorities even noticed it.
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