Outdoor urban escape rooms
Italy
Florence
Birthplace of the Renaissance: every dome, statue and tower downtown is, at bottom, the answer to a rivalry between guilds, families and architects.
Trails in Florence
Florence's Rivals
From a dome built without scaffolding to a door nicknamed by Michelangelo, from a David that's only a copy to a bridge that changed trade by ducal decree.
The Hands That Made Florence
You're crossing the river into the district Florence used for work, not for photographs. Behind Santa Croce's neo-Gothic facade there's a star nobody put there by accident, and in a square where fists once drew blood, a date is carved into a marble disc that almost nobody notices. You'll cross the Ponte Vecchio along the way, without stopping — that story already belongs to another route in this same city — to enter Oltrarno, the artisans' district. It's just under 2.5 km and eight stops: here, the difficulty lies in noticing the small things, not the monumental ones.