There is something about this city and its way of life. The web of students who have come to study abroad bring an electricity that both competes with and is incorporated into the city’s rich history now static after its peak six hundred years ago.
The bustling activity of a city filled with tourists and scooters is balanced by a countryside just minutes away that is as slow as a horse drawn carriage. The tension between the impatient innovation brought by foreigners and the metered complex analysis insisted on by Florentines makes this city deep and yet vibrant at the same time. You may have many conflicting emotions but you will never be bored.
By, Lisen Stromberg.
Lisen Stromberg lives in Silicon Valley with her husband and three children. She is an award-winning essayist currently working on her first collection of short stories entitled “Minor Disturbances.” She can be reached via email at lisen@prismwork.com
Photo courtesy of Ben Hester.
