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Local Life
City of Artisans
In our factory-made world, the old-fashioned
botteghe
of the Oltrarno are a par-
ticular delight. Florence's famed guilds may now be defunct, but many local ar-
tisans - welders and goldsmiths, framers and bookbinders, shoemakers and
seamstresses - still hand down their craft from generation to generation on this
side of the Arno.
