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Giulio Giannini e Figlio
Florence's oldest marbled-paper workshop, run by the same family on Piazza Pitti since Pietro Giannini opened a bookbindery there in 1856.
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Il Bisonte
A Florentine leather atelier founded in 1970 by Wanny Di Filippo, known for vegetable-tanned bags built around a bison-and-star logo and slower, hand-based production.
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Loretta Caponi
A haute-couture linen and embroidery atelier opened in 1967 by Loretta Caponi, whose hand-embroidered nightwear once dressed European royalty and Jane Fonda.
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Mercato di San Lorenzo
An open-air street market of leather stalls wrapping around the Basilica di San Lorenzo, running since the late 19th-century risanamento of the city centre.
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Mercato Nuovo
A Renaissance loggia built in 1551, once a market for silk and gold, now a straw and souvenir market centred on Il Porcellino, the lucky bronze boar by Pietro Tacca.
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Ship home authentic Roman specialties — guanciale, pecorino, and more.
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Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella
The world's oldest pharmacy, tracing its roots to 1221, still selling perfumes, waters and remedies from a frescoed 13th-century chapel beside the church.
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Pineider
A Florentine stationery and leather house founded in 1774 by Francesco Pineider, once favoured by Napoleon and Lord Byron, now trading from the Lungarno degli Acciaiuoli.
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Scuola del Cuoio
A working leather school and workshop tucked inside the Santa Croce complex, founded in 1950 by Franciscan friars and the Gori and Casini families.
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Via de' Tornabuoni
Florence's grand shopping boulevard, named for the family into which Lorenzo the Magnificent's mother married, running from Piazza Antinori to Ponte Santa Trinita.