Shopping Streets & Districts — Firenze
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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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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.