Firenze is best experienced on foot. Via Cavour is a main street lined with shops, cafés, restaurants, and Renaissance palaces (one of which, the mid-15th-century Palazzo Medici Riccardi, houses exhibits spanning four centuries of Florentine art history). Window-shop the designer shops and boutiques on Via de’ Tornabuoni (pictured here). Explore the Oltrarno district (across the Ponte Vecchio) for artisan workshops from handmade paper to leather goods and vintage finds. Stop for espresso in a quaint café or find a quiet little piazzetta to people watch.
Read more in Tripatini contributor Maruf Hasan´s post 9 Musts in Florence for First-Timers.
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