This is a place where I like to spend time checking out, and savoring, typical Tuscan delicacies, people watching and attending events! San Lorenzo is a picturesque neighborhood, rich of local folklore and, with its outdoors famous market stalls offering leather goods and souvenirs, a tourists’ Mecca. While the outdoors Mercatino di San Lorenzo has today mostly become a tourists’ attraction, in the Mercato Centrale typical Tuscan artisanal food is sold in the downstairs stalls and prepared, sold and lived in the upstairs restaurants, often combined with events of cultural and social content.

Above are some of the cultural and social events organized by the Mercato Centrale during the month of October, in which the typical and genuine flavors of traditional Tuscan artisanal food, sustainability, science, music, women’ equality, environmental and many other contemporary issues, are intertwined.

When in Florence, I heartily recommend a lunch at the Mercato Centrale!