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Gilda Bruno

6 Brilliant Things to See and Do in Florence — Artemest's Creative Director on the City's Best-Kept Design Secrets, From Traditional to Avant-Garde

A woman with curly hair, golden earrings, and blue eyes smiles at the camera while touching her neck with her left hand.

What better way to see the world than through the eyes of our favorite tastemakers? In Hidden Trails, we look at the places that feel most like home to our community of design insiders — wherever those might be — to help you uncover what their cities have in store for you.

"The most meaningful connection I have to Florence lies in its deep history of patronage of the arts. Growing up there, you are steeped in a civic understanding that art is not an accessory to life but its very foundation," Ippolita Rostagno, the creative director of Italian crafts platform Artemest, tells me of the relationship to her Tuscan hometown.

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