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Signoria Square, Florence, Italy
It’s hard to miss Signoria Square when you’re site seeing in Florence. In fact, you’ll walk right though it several times probably not knowing you were even in it. It happened to me a lot anyway, that I’d be walking through plazas, squares, or whatever else you want to label a giant amount of space, and realize I’m probably in something important or historical, or just plain popular.
Signoria Square was an outburst of painters, peddlers, parents, and journeymen. The painters lined up along the sidewalks each seemingly creating something better than the artist next to him or her. Peddlers streamed the streets with open hats or hands and all I could think was, at least paint me something! Parents from all angles of the square looked like they were running marathons to try and keep up with the zigzagging children just out of their reach. Then there was us journeymen and women . . .
With all the chaos, we soloists (maybe it was just me?) tried to tune out the noise and concentrate at the task at hand. Try and get through Signoria Square and not get distracted! It’s a challenge because I wanted to do this and see this and go to this before it closed or whatever. But the Square itself is a site too. There’s a quaint bustle to the ear that cannot go ignored and its one of a city bursting with mid-morning energy. SS (yeah, I think TGTGs are cool enough to abbreviate) also hosts some of the most surprising highlights of my day trip to Florence - its statues.
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