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When you reach the stage of museum overload and need to stretch your legs and see
some sky, the tiers of parks and gardens behind Palazzo Pitti - not to be missed at sunset
when its entire vast facade is coloured a vibrant pink - are just the ticket.
Should you notice something gone awry with street signs in Oltrarno - on a No Entry
sign, a tiny black figure stealthily sneaking away with the white bar for example - you can
be sure it is the work of
CLET
(Via dell'Olmo 8r; variable)
, Florence's most talked-about
and admired street artist who quietly beavers away in his Oltrarno studio on Via
dell'Olmo creating stickers that end up on street signs all over the city. In 2011 the
French-born artist created quite a stir in his adopted city by installing, in the black of
night, a life-sized figurine entitled
Uomo Comune
(Common Man) on Ponte alle Grazie
(to which the city authorities turned a blind eye for a week before removing it).
Oltrarno & Boboli
