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Florence Photo Gallery
Photographs by Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson

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ny surface provides a canvas in Florence, perhaps not surprising in this city that sparked the Renaissance. "This street artist was copying a portrait onto the pavement of Via Por Santa Maria, a space designated by the city for street art, to bring creativity back into the historical center," says Brimberg. Other popular Florentine venues for street art, from painting to music to mime: Piazza del Duomo and Piazza de' Pitti.

Read more about Florence in "Stalking Michelangelo," in Traveler's July/August 2006 issue.

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