Florence video city walk

Florence is small enough that the famous things keep appearing at the end of ordinary streets. You walk a lane of shuttered windows and leather shops, turn a corner, and the cathedral is simply there, too close to photograph and too big to take in. Then it is gone again behind four storeys of plain stone. That rhythm — dense, plain, sudden — is the whole experience of the centre on foot, and it does not survive being edited into highlights.

Common questions

Where do the Florence walks go?

Through the historic centre: the cathedral square, the streets around Piazza della Signoria, and across the Arno by the old bridges. The route stays inside the part you would actually walk.

How long does each walk run?

Each one plays from about a tenth of the way in to near the end, then hands over to another walk in the same city. Left alone, it simply keeps going.

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