Florence is one of those places that everyone in the western world will inevitably learn about, since the city produced some of the most brilliant minds of the renaissance period and as such, has left an indelible mark in the history of our species. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, Botticelli, Caravaggio and Dante Alighieri are a few of the names that we still talk about and study to this day. Given its legacy as a center of art, it’s impossible to turn a corner, look at a building or walk the streets without seeing local artists, shoe makers, couture shops or works of Renaissance art. The entire city is one big, living, breathing organism of expression.