The Tuscan Edit by Florence Factory featured among the best Florence travel blogs
There are many ways to tell Florence.
You can tell it through its museums, domes, masterpieces, long lines, legendary sandwiches and sunsets from Piazzale Michelangelo. All true. All beautiful. All photographed approximately nine billion times a day.
With The Tuscan Edit, we wanted to do something slightly different.
We wanted to tell Florence from street level: through the hands of its artisans, the windows of independent shops, the quieter corners between one famous square and another, and the small studios where objects are still imagined, designed and made with care.
That is why we are happy to share that The Tuscan Edit by Florence Factory has been featured by Feedspot among the best Florence travel blogs and rss/feeds to follow in 2026.
We are especially glad to appear in a list that also includes established local voices such as Girl in Florence, one of the most recognizable English-language blogs about life and travel in Florence.
For us, this is not just a nice mention. It is a sign that there is still room for a more local, more contemporary, more human way of discovering Florence.
Why we created The Tuscan Edit
Florence is one of the most visited cities in the world, but the version most visitors meet is often surprisingly narrow.
A few streets. A few monuments. A few famous views. A few shops selling things that could have been made anywhere, by anyone, for no one in particular. The Tuscan Edit was created to open another door. We write about Florence as a living city, not only as an open-air museum. A city where craft is not nostalgia, design is not a luxury cliché, and local shopping can still be a way to understand where you are.
Our idea is simple: if you want to bring something home from Florence, bring home something with a real story.
Not a fake leather bag.
Not another anonymous souvenir.
Not a tiny David who looks like he has given up on life.
Something made by people who work here, live here and contribute to the creative identity of the city every day.
The Florence we like to share
The Florence we tell through The Tuscan Edit is made of artisans, designers, small workshops, independent addresses and thoughtful itineraries.
It is the Florence of contemporary jewelry, handmade leather goods, ceramics, paper flowers, candles, textile design, slow walks and unexpected discoveries.
It is also the Florence that exists just outside the obvious route: a garden after a crowded museum, a quiet street near a famous square, a shop where you can meet the person behind the object.
This is the kind of Florence travel guide we believe in: useful, yes, but also selective. Local, but not provincial. Beautiful, but not asleep under a Renaissance blanket.
Florence has an extraordinary past. Everybody knows that.
What interests us is how that past still moves through the present: in materials, gestures, taste, proportions, and in the work of people who choose to make things well, slowly and honestly.
Florence artisan shopping is not just shopping
Buying from local artisans is not only a nicer way to shop. It is a way to support the city you came to see.
Because the charm of Florence does not live only in marble, frescoes and stone façades. It lives in the streets being used, in workshops staying open, in young designers choosing to remain here, in independent businesses resisting the easy slide into sameness. When you buy a handmade piece from a local artisan, you are not just purchasing an object.
You are helping keep a street alive.
You are supporting a skill.
You are choosing quality over imitation.
You are making tourism a little less extractive and a little more generous.
And, frankly, you are also getting something far better.
A handmade jewel, a leather bag made in small numbers, a ceramic piece, a candle, a scarf, a design object: these are not souvenirs in the usual sense. They are fragments of a real city.
Where to find local artisans in Florence
Florence Factory was created around this idea.
In one place, just a few minutes from Piazza della Signoria and the Uffizi, we bring together a curated selection of Florentine and Tuscan artisans, designers and independent makers.
The result is not a traditional souvenir shop and not an outlet. It is a contemporary craft space where visitors can discover jewelry, leather goods, accessories, home objects and design pieces made with a very different logic: small productions, local hands, real materials, personal vision.
The Tuscan Edit is the editorial extension of that same idea.
It is where we share the Florence we know: artisan stories, local guides, independent shopping ideas, unusual walks, and small ways to experience the city with more attention and less autopilot.
A different kind of Florence travel blog
Being featured among Florence travel blogs is meaningful to us because The Tuscan Edit is not trying to be a complete encyclopedia of the city.
It is a filter. A point of view.
A way to say: yes, see the masterpieces. Of course. They are masterpieces for a reason. But then take one more turn. Enter a workshop. Look at what people are making now. Ask where an object comes from. Choose something that belongs to this place.
Florence is not finished. It is still being made, every day, by the people who work with leather, metal, clay, wax, paper, fabric, glass, color, form and patience.
That is the Florence we want to keep telling.
And if The Tuscan Edit can help even a few travelers find that side of the city, then this small recognition from Feedspot is not just a mention.
It is a good excuse to continue.
Visiting Florence?
Come discover Florence Factory in Via dei Neri 6/8r: a curated space for contemporary Tuscan craft, handmade jewelry, leather bags, design objects and local designers, just a few minutes from Piazza della Signoria and Piazza Sant Croce.
Not souvenirs. Not outlet shopping. Just real things, made by real people, in a city that deserves better than fake leather and fridge magnets.
