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Get the Flo-Down
Experience Florence Like a Local
STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY BY AMY LAUGHINGHOUSE
t the risk of horrifying the more cultured That’s exactly what I did—or rather, didn’t do—
amongyourfriends,tryconfessingthatyou the last time I visited Florence. When I revealed
A went to Florence, the Tuscan capital re- my secret shame (well, somewhat less secret now)
plete with Renaissance riches, and didn’t set foot to my friend Stephen, he responded with slack-
in a single “must-see” museum. You didn’t ogle jawed disbelief. I had toured the city once before
David,Michelangelo’slarger-than-life(insomere- and hit the highlights, I assured him, but he con-
spects) Magic Mike masterpiece at the Accademia. tinued to regard me warily, as if I were a Sci-Fi
You didn’t ponder the Medicis’ proudly OTT Royal monster that had just unzipped its human skin
Apartments at the Pitti Palace. You even ignored and revealed a salivating, fang-toothed lizard
the Uffizi’s collection of works by legends like body beneath.
Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Raphael.
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