As the home of Renaissance art and countless artists, Florence is indisputably a dream destination for art and history enthusiasts, and me! When I was little, my parents bought me a lot of educational books to read, from world literature, history, to biographies of great men. What is it about Florence then? Florence is one of the most mentioned places, especially in the stories of great Italians such as Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Galileo. This is how my impression of this wonderful city build. Finally, in 2015, my dream came true. I traveled to Italy with friends and made Florence our first destination.
Today’s location
Florence, the capital of the Tuscany region of Italy, is renowned as one of the most cultural and artistic cities in the world.
The story behind the photos
Back in 2015, I didn’t know much about street art, thus I didn’t intentionally look up graffiti gathering places while traveling. I was more a wanderer, walking around the city and being unexpectedly surprised. Like Paris (see City Graffiti in Paris here), Florence itself is living history, full of amazing architecture and cultural heritage. Graffiti is not as common here as in modern cities like NYC or LA, which makes every graffiti hidden in the city corners more gem-like!
Have you been to Florence? How do you like the city?
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Very nice post @ChanneLing 
I’m so happy you like street art as I do! Let’s share World of Graffiti as many times as possible
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Thank you for the comment! @AniaKiser
Yasssss! Viva le street art!! 
It’s awesome to have you as a graffiti company!
We should defo explore the world more and share! 
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Super nice graffities and paintings. I have been in Milano a couple of years ago and found some graffitied housings and squats. Unfortunately the light there was not enough to shoot good pictures.
If you were in so many European locations @ChanneLing have you ever visited Tacheles Art House in Berlin by any luck?
That would be more then nice if so.
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Hi @JacobLED ,
Thank you! Yes, Milano is a beautiful destination too. I’ve been there during the World Expo a few years ago and it was amazing! Unfortunately, I didn’t get to explorer the city area much. I really hope I could make another visit and know the city better in the future.
Berlin!! I wish I did! I’ve always wanted to visit Germany, especially in Berlin, but not yet. I googled the place you mentioned and it looks awesome, like a treasure corner for graffiti enthusiasts! Sadly it shows permanently closed in Google Maps. I don’t know it’s due to the pandemic thing or it’s gone forever. Have you been there?
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Hello @ChanneLing , I was lucky to know some graffiti artists from NZ who knew some underground guys in the poor districts of Milano. Because I was not alone I couldn’t get the best out of the city. Because it was more a group move. The district was a complete squad and I marked it of course on my Maps Account because I realized that the Cafes in the area are really hip and nice too. Something in between a ghetto neighborhood becoming slowly hip. I saw Italian families eating in a small restaurant and they where full, which one I really want to visit next time.
Tacheles is completely closed 
but the old mob is waiting for the opening. The money fathers of the city sold it and they build a project on it. You’re asking me if I was there? I worked, loved and grew up there. Knew this place as a teenager but after my Uni I spent about 12 years in this place. There is nothing comparable there anymore. The most artists, my friends, are spread all over Berlin.
I like to work in workshops too, but photography and traveling is my passion.
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Hi @ChanneLing ,
Thanks for sharing this great post with us! Florence is a wonderful city, rich of art, culture and history, which I particularly love since I used to live there when I was a university student. The city is very creative nowadays too, especially thanks to all the art schools and academies, with students joining from all over the world.
Since you love graffiti so much, I thought you could like this post where you will see more Italian mural art: Dozza il borgo dei Murales.
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Hey @JacobLED ,
Wow, it’s amazing to know that. You did have stories behind it. Thanks for sharing it with me!
It’s a shame that it’s closed. Hope I could get a chance to see it reopen in my future visit to Berlin. And yes, you’re blessed to have spent so much time living in Berlin. I’m sure it’s a lifetime treasure. I have some friends working there but I’ve never got a chance to visit them yet. Now you’re living in Turkey, right? If I didn’t remember wrong?
Workshop? Like the artsy one?
When I was a child, I dreamed to be an artist, a cartoonist, or a travel writer. Though my work now is far from what I dreamed to be. I still have that passion in life! Just enjoy it from a different angle! 
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Hi @Giu_DiB ,
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the post
Florence is defo my favorite city in Italy, though I’ve only visited a few.
It’s incredible how many artists are raised and grown there.
Thanks for sharing the article with me! I’ll defo check it out!
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Hey @ChanneLing , you know what they say, it’s never too late to start something new in life. Specially of it’s your passion combined with work. But there are soo many travel blogs around the globe, I met one a person in Albania, she told me she is making money with ads… sounded a bit dodgy for me 
Indeed some artsy workshops, I love to work with metal and wood. I learned and assist an artist last year in March. He has the Cuboid Gallery in Plus Hostel Berlin. He is doing anything what you can imagine from iron and any metal. He is called the brother of Iron. 
By the way, he is Italian too.
You have friends living and working there? There is a great chance, that we used to hang around in the same places. Where are you from by the way?
I left Berlin 3 years ago, and based in Istanbul now. But believe me I haven’t been gere a whole year yet. I moved for 6 month to the UK and I was currently living in Greece and had to leave because of this pandemic.
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That’s true! @JacobLED Actually when I was entering senior high, I almost chose design over information technology as my major. But I guess the attraction from online games was so strong to me back then, which leads me to a wholly different career direction. But still, art has always been my top interest and influences me a lot.
That’s so cool! I once enrolled in a metalwork course at university (with a bunch of art major students), and it was way harder than I thought, both energy and time consuming lol.
I’m from Taiwan and am currently living in Taipei. I’ve spent some time studying in France and Canada when I was a student. That’s also how I got my chance to travel around. I miss those good old days so much.
You’ve been staying and traveling to so many places!! I want to long stay in some other countries but I need to persuade my boss to let me work from home that long lol. Which city is your favorite living place so far? Among all the places you’ve lived in?
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So you are also one of the victims of the industry like me. My heart still beats for art since my childhood I was creating something, discovering the nature playing with bugs. Somehow as much we could manage as kids growing up in a city like Berlin.
I had the chance to live for a long time in different cities as a student as well. I don’t have really that favourite city yet. I had a great time in Berlin, when I came back after 8,5 years. It was my hometown but I had through my jobs in tourism and the Erasmus students clique a totally different angle to the city. It was discovering your own city new.
London is a great city to live. But I must add as a student it’s a hard living as well. I believe in Thessaloniki you can have a sweet life. As that was my last stop until March 25th. I had to leave there unfortunately because of the crisis. I liked Tirana too, it’s a really western oriented city where you can find almost everything what you need. Istanbul is really huge, kind of too huge. Life is enjoyable there under hard circumstances. Compared to Izmir. Izmir is the best city to live in Turkey. The citizens are very easy going, you are open to the sea, it has many beaches and groceries are not expensive… but to be honest, my heart beats somewhere else… we call it in Germany, ‘Fernweh’.
Where would you like to live @ChanneLing Did you read my post about the Sushi place in Albania? I came to this place through a friend from Taiwan. A great guy speaking more then 25 languages… I assumes you also speak more then 3 languages? 
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Thanks for sharing these places with me! @JacobLED I’ve never been to these places, neither Balkans, but I googled and found them amazing. Oh my, you’re making my to-visit list longer and longer lol.
And yes, I saw your sushi post. It’s unbelievable that a person can speak that many languages, really a WOW. How incredible that he can switch between all these languages cuz a language isn’t just about language, but also logic, a mindset, and a new angle to interpret the world. As for me, I do speak more than 3, about 5.5 languages? Mandarin, Taiwanese, English, French, Some Korean, and basic Japanese (so I count it as 0.5). 
How about you? I assume you speak quite many.
My dream long-stay destination? There are a lot, but I gotta say Portugal and Greece (could be the city you recommend, Thessaloniki) are on the top of my list at this moment. Also, south Italy? I’ve visited some cities in the north but never been to the south. Berlin is another city I really want to spend time in. Also, the three Baltic countries, especially Latvia, since one of my best friends is living in Riga, it’d be great to visit her. Speaking of that, Portland is another country I’d like to explore more. There are just so many places in my mind lol.
Since you’ve been to so many places, are there any places you’ve not been to but really want to?
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Hey @ChanneLing , I am very happy to hear that I was able to positively influence your travel plans ?? Indeed there are a couple of places I haven’t been yet and I really want to visit. If we are going to limit it on Europe, it is Rome, South Italy and Sicily. Scandinavian Countries and the Baltic Countries as well, as I heard only positive feedbacks from friends who visited these countries. In Asia it would be Japan, Thailand and the Indochina region in total. To be honest @ChanneLing , isn’t the world as a whole totally interesting 
I am a multilingual too, we grew up at home switching languages between German and Turkish, as I consider both as my native language. Later came English, as it is cool to use anglicized words in German and specially slang if you use a HipHop language 
I learned some French at school and consider it as 0,5 and 0,5 Spanish basics. Let’s say, I came along with that in Spain and in Berlin with spanish tourists. I know exactly what you mean, when you say switching languages means switching your mindset.
Have you ever heard about the region of Calabria in south Italy?
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The world is really a reading book, isn’t it? @JacobLED And I think I’ve only read not even 5% of it. 
Oh yeah, Asia! Funny to say this, despite I’m living in Asia, I haven’t explored much of it. I really want to! Besides Taiwan, where I’m living now, I’ve only visited Macau and Shanghai. But I really want to visit Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and more!
Hahahahaha Hip Hop languages. Yeah, I know some friends learn English with it as well lol. Skrrrrrrrrr
No, I didn’t, but the photos look amazing on Google lol. Hope one day I could make it there!
