Lara K. Breckon is a 13-year-old expat and Florence resident. She is an avid writer and will be the author of upcoming articles for TF's FlorenTeens column.
Florence is a wonderful city, full of art, culture and stunning architecture. But, from a teenager's point of view, wandering around ‘some old city' in the boiling hot sun or under the cold, wet rain to visit the tomb of ‘some dead guy' or ‘some paintings'
There are many ways to find the multitude of faces and places of a more authentic kind of Florence than the one you will see in and around piazza Duomo and the Ponte Vecchio. Finding Florence is an effort all study abroad students should make to seek true authenticity, to