Florence's best park is the Medici grand dukes' old backyard to the Pitti Palace, the Giardino di Boboli. Less scenic, but free and more jogger-friendly, is the Parco delle Cascine along the Arno at the west end of the historic center. Originally a wild delta of land where the Arno…
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A word about sightseeing passes: It may seem a little odd to label the Firenze Card (www.firenzecard.it) a “discount” ticket, since it costs a substantial 85€. Is it a good buy? If you are planning a busy, museum-packed break here, the Firenze Card is a good value. If you only expect to see a few highlights, sk ...
A word about sightseeing passes: It may seem a little odd to label the Firenze Card (www.firenzecard.it) a “discount” ticket, since it costs a substantial 85€. Is it a good buy? If you are planning a busy, museum-packed break here, the Firenze Card is a good value. If you only expect to see a few highlights, skip it.
The details: the card (valid for 72 hr.) allows one-time entrance to 60-plus sites, including some that are free anyway, but also the Uffizi, Accademia, Cappella Brancacci, Palazzo Pitti, Brunelleschi’s dome, San Marco, and many more. In fact, everything we recommend in Florence is included with the card, even sites in Fiesole. It gets you into much shorter lines and takes ticket pre-booking hassles out of the equation—another saving of 3€ to 4€for busy museums, above all the Uffizi and Accademia. If you buy a Digital FirenzeCard (an app) you are entitled to an extra 48 hours’ validity anytime within 12 months. The FirenzeCard+ add-on (7€) includes up to 3 days’ bus travel (which you likely won’t use).
Don’t buy a Firenze Card for anyone ages 17 and under: With a full-priced card you can take immediate family members ages 17 and under for free. Any companions under 18 can join the express queue with you and pay only the “reservation fee” at state-owned museums (it’s 4€ at the Uffizi, for example). Those under 17 gain free admission to civic museums (such as the Palazzo Vecchio) anyway. Private museums and sites have their own payment rules, but it will not add up to 85€ per child.
If you don’t spring for the Firenze card, you’ll need to buy the Grande Museo del Duomo ticket to visit any of the sites on the cathedral square. The joint ticket, which costs 18€ (3€ for ages 6 to 11) and is valid for 72 hours, covers Brunelleschi’s dome (including the now obligatory booking of a time slot), the Baptistery, Campanile di Giotto, the revamped Museo dell’Opera, and crypt excavations of Santa Reparata (inside the cathedral). In Florence, buy it at the ticket office across from the Baptistery, on the north side of Piazza San Giovanni, or inside the Museo dell’Opera. See www.ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it for more details, to buy online ahead of arrival, and to book a time slot for the dome.
Warning: Do not buy “skip the line” or other tickets for Brunelleschi’s dome on the street. These are not valid and you will be turned away.
The details: the card (valid for 72 hr.) allows one-time entrance to 60-plus sites, including some that are free anyway, but also the Uffizi, Accademia, Cappella Brancacci, Palazzo Pitti, Brunelleschi’s dome, San Marco, and many more. In fact, everything we recommend in Florence is included with the card, even sites in Fiesole. It gets you into much shorter lines and takes ticket pre-booking hassles out of the equation—another saving of 3€ to 4€for busy museums, above all the Uffizi and Accademia. If you buy a Digital FirenzeCard (an app) you are entitled to an extra 48 hours’ validity anytime within 12 months. The FirenzeCard+ add-on (7€) includes up to 3 days’ bus travel (which you likely won’t use).
Don’t buy a Firenze Card for anyone ages 17 and under: With a full-priced card you can take immediate family members ages 17 and under for free. Any companions under 18 can join the express queue with you and pay only the “reservation fee” at state-owned museums (it’s 4€ at the Uffizi, for example). Those under 17 gain free admission to civic museums (such as the Palazzo Vecchio) anyway. Private museums and sites have their own payment rules, but it will not add up to 85€ per child.
If you don’t spring for the Firenze card, you’ll need to buy the Grande Museo del Duomo ticket to visit any of the sites on the cathedral square. The joint ticket, which costs 18€ (3€ for ages 6 to 11) and is valid for 72 hours, covers Brunelleschi’s dome (including the now obligatory booking of a time slot), the Baptistery, Campanile di Giotto, the revamped Museo dell’Opera, and crypt excavations of Santa Reparata (inside the cathedral). In Florence, buy it at the ticket office across from the Baptistery, on the north side of Piazza San Giovanni, or inside the Museo dell’Opera. See www.ilgrandemuseodelduomo.it for more details, to buy online ahead of arrival, and to book a time slot for the dome.
Warning: Do not buy “skip the line” or other tickets for Brunelleschi’s dome on the street. These are not valid and you will be turned away.
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Religious Site
Battistero (Baptistery)
In choosing a date to mark the beginning of the Renaissance, art historians often seize on 1401, the year Florence’s powerful wool merchants’ guild held a contest to decide who would receive the commission to design the North Doors ★★ of the Baptistery to match its Gothic South… -
Historic Site
Campanile di Giotto (Giotto’s Bell Tower)
In 1334, Giotto started the cathedral bell tower but completed only the first two levels before his death in 1337. He was out of his league with the engineering aspects of architecture, and the tower was saved from falling by Andrea Pisano, who doubled the thickness of the walls.… -
Monument/memorial
Cappelle Medicee (Medici Chapels)
When Michelangelo built the New Sacristy between 1520 and 1533 (finished by Vasari in 1556), it was to be a tasteful monument to Lorenzo the Magnificent and his generation of relatively pleasant Medici. When work got underway on the adjacent Cappella dei Principi (Chapel of the… -
Historic Site
Casa Buonarroti
Though Michelangelo Buonarroti never actually lived in this modest palazzo, he did own the property and left it to his nephew Lionardo. Lionardo named his own son after his famous uncle, and this younger Michelangelo became very devoted to the memory of his namesake, converting the… -
Religious Site
Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia
There are no lines at this former convent and no crowds: Few people even know it's here. What they're missing is one vast wall covered with the vibrant colors of Andrea del Castagno's masterful Last Supper (ca. 1450). Castagno used his paint to create the rich marble panels that… -
Cathedral
Duomo (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore)
By the late 13th century, Florence was feeling peevish: Its archrivals Siena and Pisa sported huge, flamboyant new cathedrals while it was saddled with the tiny 5th- or 6th-century Santa Reparata. So, in 1296, the city hired Arnolfo di Cambio to design a new Duomo, and he raised the… -
Art museum
Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery)
There is no collection of Renaissance art on the planet that can match the Uffizi. Period. For all its crowds and other inconveniences, the Uffizi remains a must-see. And what will you see? Some 60-plus rooms and marble corridors—built in the 16th century as the Medici’s private… -
Galleria del Costume & Museo degli Argenti
These aren't the most popular of the Pitti's museums, and the Museo degli Argenti has what seem like miles of the most extravagant and often hideous objets d'art and housewares the Medici and Lorraines could put their hands on. If the collections prove anything, it's that as the… -
Art museum
Galleria dell’Accademia
“David”—“Il Gigante”—is much larger than most people imagine, looming 4.8m (16 ft.) on top of a 1.8m (6-ft.) pedestal. He hasn’t faded with time, either, and a 2004 cleaning makes the marble gleam as if it were opening day, 1504. Viewing the statue is a pleasure in the bright and… -
Park/Garden
Giardino Bardini (Bardini Garden)
Hemmed in to the north by the city’s medieval wall, the handsome Bardini Garden is less famous—and so less hectic—than its neighbor down the hill, the Boboli Garden. From its loftier perch over the Oltrarno, it beats the Boboli hands down for views and new angles on the city. Check… -
Park/Garden
Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Garden)
The statue-filled park behind the Pitti Palace is one of the earliest and finest Renaissance gardens, laid out mostly between 1549 and 1656 with box hedges in geometric patterns, groves of ilex (holm oak), dozens of statues, and rows of cypress. Just above the entrance through the… -
Museum
Museo Archeologico (Archaeological Museum)
If you can force yourselves away from the Renaissance, rewind a millennium or two at one of the most important archaeological collections in central Italy, which has a particular emphasis on the Etruscan period. You will need a little patience, however: The collection is in a… -
Museum/Religious Site
Museo Marino Marini & Cappella Rucellai
One of Florence’s most unusual museums showcases the work of sculptor Marino Marini (1901–80). A native of nearby Pistoia, Marini worked mostly in bronze, with “horse and rider” a recurring theme in his semi-abstract work. The open spaces, minimal crowds, monumental sculptures, and… -
Museum
Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Bargello Museum)
This is the most important museum anywhere for Renaissance sculpture—and often inexplicably quieter than other museums in the city. In a far cry from its original use as the city’s prison, torture chamber, and execution site, the Bargello now stands as a three-story art museum… -
Museum
Museo Zoologia “La Specola”
The wax anatomical models are one reason the Zoology Museum might be the only one in Florence where kids eagerly pull their parents from room to room. Vast, impressive, but creepy collections of pickled creepy-crawlies and stuffed specimens from every branch of the animal kingdom… -
Religious Site
Ognissanti
Founded in 1256 by the Umiliati, a wool-weaving sect of the Benedictines whose trade helped establish this area as a textile district, the present Ognissanti was rebuilt by its new Franciscan owners in the 17th century. It has the earliest baroque facade in Florence, designed by… -
Church
Orsanmichele
This bulky structure halfway down Via dei Calzaiuoli looks more like a Gothic warehouse than a church—which is exactly what it was, built as a granary and grain market in 1337. After a miraculous image of the Madonna appeared on a column inside, its lower level was turned into a… -
Palace/Museum
Palazzo Davanzati
One of the best-preserved 14th-century palaces in the city is open as a museum dedicated to domestic life in the medieval and Renaissance period—for nobles and the wealthy, at least. It was originally built for the Davizzi family in the mid-1300s, then bought by the Davanzati clan;… -
Palace
Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Built by Michelozzo in 1444 for the Medici “godfather” Cosimo il Vecchio, this is the prototypical Florentine palazzo, on which the more overbearing Strozzi and Pitti palaces were modeled. It remained the Medici’s private home until Cosimo I officially declared his power as duke by… -
Museum/Palace
Palazzo Pitti (Pitti Palace)
Although built by and named after a rival of the Medici—the merchant Luca Pitti—in the 1450s, this gigantic palazzo soon came into Medici hands. It was the Medici family’s principal home from the 1540s, and continued to house Florence’s rulers until 1919. The Pitti contains five… -
Cultural complex
Palazzo Strozzi
This Renaissance palace is Florence’s major space for temporary and contemporary art shows, and has been experiencing a 21st-century renaissance of its own. Hit shows in recent years include Bill Viola’s “Electronic Renaissance” in 2017 and Marina Abramović in 2019. There’s always… -
Palace/Museum
Palazzo Vecchio
Florence’s fortresslike town hall was built from 1299 to 1302 on the designs of Arnolfo di Cambio, Gothic master builder of the city. The palace was home to the various Florentine republican governments (and is today to the municipal government). Cosimo I and his ducal Medici family… -
Square
Piazzale Michelangiolo
This pedestrianized, panoramic piazza is on the itinerary of every tour bus. The balustraded terrace was laid out in 1869 to give a sweeping vista of the Renaissance city, spread out in the valley below and backed by the green hills of Fiesole beyond. A bronze replica of “David” here… -
Architecture
Ponte Vecchio
The oldest and most famous bridge across the Arno, the Ponte Vecchio was built in 1345 by Taddeo Gaddi to replace an earlier version. The characteristic overhanging shops have lined the bridge since at least the 12th century. In the 16th century, it was home to butchers until Cosimo… -
Religious Site
San Felice
This tiny Gothic church just south of the Pitti Palace sports a High Renaissance facade by Michelozzo (1457) and a Crucifixion over the high altar recently attributed to the school of Giotto. At no. 8 on the piazza, on the corner of Via Maggio, is the entrance to the Casa Guidi,… -
Church
San Lorenzo
A rough brick anti-facade and undistinguished stony bulk hide what is most likely the oldest church in Florence, founded in a.d. 393. It was later the Medici family’s parish church, and Cosimo il Vecchio, whose wise behind-the-scenes rule made him popular with the Florentines, is… -
Art museum
San Marco
We have never understood why this place is not mobbed; perhaps because it showcases, almost exclusively, the work of Fra’ Angelico, Dominican monk and Florentine painter in the style known as “International Gothic.” His decorative impulses and the sinuous lines of his figures mark… -
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San Miniato al Monte
High atop a hill, its gleaming white-and-green facade visible from the city below, San Miniato is one of the few ancient churches of Florence to survive the centuries virtually intact. The current building began to take shape in 1013, under the auspices of the powerful Arte di… -
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Santa Croce
The center of the Florentine Franciscan universe was begun in 1294 by Gothic master Arnolfo di Cambio in order to rival the church of Santa Maria Novella being raised by the Dominicans across the city. The church wasn’t consecrated until 1442, and even then it remained faceless until… -
Church
Santa Felicità
The 2nd-century Greek sailors who lived in this neighborhood brought Christianity to Florence with them, and this little church was probably the second to be established in the city, the first edition of it rising in the late 4th century. The current version was built in the 1730s.… -
Religious Site
Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi
The entrance to this church is an unassuming, unnumbered door on Borgo Pinti that opens onto a pretty cloister designed in 1492 by Giuliano da Sangallo, open to the sky and surrounded by large pietra serena columns topped with droopy-eared Ionic capitals. The interior of the… -
Church
Santa Maria Novella
Of all Florence’s major churches, the home of the Dominicans is the only one with an original facade ★★ that matches its era of greatest importance. The lower Romanesque half was started in the 14th century by architect Fra’ Jacopo Talenti, who had just finished building the church… -
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Santa Maria del Carmine
Following a 1771 fire that destroyed everything but the transept chapels and sacristy, this Carmelite church was almost entirely reconstructed in high baroque style. To see the famous Cappella Brancacci in the right transept, you have to enter through the cloisters (doorway to the… -
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Santa Trínita
Beyond Bernardo Buontalenti’s late-16th-century facade lies a dark church, rebuilt in the 14th century but founded by the Vallombrosans before 1177. The third chapel on the right has what remains of the detached frescoes by Spinello Aretino, which were found under Lorenzo Monaco’s… -
Church
Santissima Annunziata
In 1233, seven Florentine nobles had a spiritual crisis, gave away all their possessions, and retired to the forests to contemplate divinity. In 1250, they returned to what were then fields outside the city walls and founded a small oratory, proclaiming they were Servants of Mary, or… -
Church
Santo Spirito
One of Filippo Brunelleschi’s masterpieces of architecture, this 15th-century church doesn’t look much from the outside (no proper facade was ever built). But the interior is a marvelous High Renaissance space—an expansive landscape of proportion and mathematics in classic… -
Religious Site
Sinagoga (Synagogue) and Jewish Museum
The center of the 1,000-strong Jewish community in Florence is this imposing Moorish-Byzantine synagogue, built in 1882. In an effort to create a neo-Byzantine building, the architects ended up making it look rather like a church, complete with a dome, an apse, a pulpit, and a pipe… -
Museum
Spedale degli Innocenti
Originally funded by the silkworkers’ guild, the “Nocenti” opened in 1419, and ever since has been one of the world’s most famous childcare institutions. (The Institute still works with UNICEF and others.) Their landmark building was designed by Brunelleschi himself, with elegant…
Florence Shopping
Florence is home to great craft workshops and individual stores like apothecary Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. Back streets like Borgo Santi Apostoli are worth exploring. For designer clothes make for Via de'Tornabuoni and Via de'Calzaiuoli - or travel to The Mall, a designer outlet in Le ...
Florence is home to great craft workshops and individual stores like apothecary Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. Back streets like Borgo Santi Apostoli are worth exploring. For designer clothes make for Via de'Tornabuoni and Via de'Calzaiuoli - or travel to The Mall, a designer outlet in Leccio Reggello. Pick up leather goods at the San Lorenzo Market. Opening hours vary: big stores open Monday to Saturday, 10am-7pm (later on Thursday), smaller stores close Monday morning and at lunch.
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Bookstores
Feltrinelli International
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Fashion
Gucci Garden
This private museum-cum-store tells the story of the Gucci empire, from humble beginning to worldwide megabrand. Guccio Gucci got his flash of inspiration while working as a lift boy at London's Savoy Hotel: His first product designs were for travel luggage to suit the lives and… -
Leather Goods
Madova
For almost a century, this has been the best city retailer for handmade leather gloves, lined with silk, cashmere, or lambs’ wool. Expect to pay between 40€ and 70€ for a pair. You perhaps wouldn’t expect it a few paces from the Ponte Vecchio, but this place is the real deal. And… -
Arts & Crafts
Masks of Agostino Dessi
This little shop is stuffed floor to ceiling with handmade masks. Each is made by hand from papier-mâché, leather, and ceramics, then hand finished expertly. Items cover both Venetian Carnevale and commedia dell’arte styles. -
Mercato Nuovo/Mercato della Paglia
Alternatively known as the “New” Market or the Straw Market, this handsome little loggia now shelters stalls stuffed with affordable souvenirs and trinkets, and aimed exclusively at tourists. Pay a visit if only to see the “Porcellino,” a small bronze boar cast in the 1600s by Pietro… -
Mercato di San Lorenzo
The city’s busiest tourist street market is a fun place to pick up T-shirts, marbleized paper, or a city souvenir. Leather wallets, purses, bags, and jackets are another popular purchase—but be sure to assess the quality of the workmanship, and haggle for your life. The market runs… -
Mercato di Sant'Ambrogio
A proper slice of Florentine life, 6 mornings a week. The piazza outside has fruit, vegetables, costume jewelry, preserves, and end-of-line clothing. Go inside the market building for meat, olive oil, a cafe, or a budget bite to eat at “Da Rocco.” -
Perfume & Cosmetics
Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella
A shrine to scents and skincare, and also Florence’s most historic herbal pharmacy with roots in the 17th century, when it was founded by Dominicans based in the adjacent convent of Santa Maria Novella. Nothing is cheap, but the perfumes, cosmetics, moisturizers, and other products… -
Leather Goods
Scuola del Cuoio
Florence’s leading leather school is also open house for visitors. You can watch trainee leatherworkers and gilders at work (Mon–Fri), then visit the small store to buy the best soft leather. Portable items like wallets, belts, and bags are a good buy. Closed Sundays in low season.
Florence Nightlife
Classical arts performances are held at venues like the Teatro Comunale near Parco delle Cascine park while rock concerts take place outside the city at L'Auditorium Flog. The club scene is livelier than it was and clubs like Tenax near Peretola airport are popular for dancing. Most Florentines head for bars an ...
Classical arts performances are held at venues like the Teatro Comunale near Parco delle Cascine park while rock concerts take place outside the city at L'Auditorium Flog. The club scene is livelier than it was and clubs like Tenax near Peretola airport are popular for dancing. Most Florentines head for bars and cafés in the historic centre for an evening aperitif. Clubs open from around 11pm and don't close until about 4am.
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Bar
Bitter Bar
New-breed craft cocktails and twisted classics are served in a speakeasy-style bar with low lighting and moody, midcentury modern decor. Mixology is first rate. Reserve a table on weekends. -
Bars & Pubs
Caffetteria delle Oblate
Relaxing terrace popular with local families and students, and well away from the tourist crush (and prices) on the streets below. As a bonus, it has unique perspective on Brunelleschi’s dome. Also serves light lunch and aperitivo. Closed Monday mornings. -
Wine bar
Cantinetta dei Verrazzano
One of the coziest little cafe-bars in the center is decked out with antique wooden wine cabinets, in genuine enoteca style. Wines come from the first-rate Verrazzano estate in Chianti. Light breakfast and morning cappuccino is a delight. Closed evenings and all day Sunday. -
Cafe
Ditta Artigianale
This on-trend spot mixes modernist Scandinavian design with a bit of everything, at any time of day. Highlights are evening gin cocktails (10€) and fantastic flat white and filter coffee made with their own small-batch grind. There’s also daily brunch, wines by the glass, and artisan… -
Bar
Fermento
Right opposite the Medici Chapels, this tiny bar serves Italian and Belgian craft beers in every style from IPA to stout, and carb-rich food to soak it up. -
Wine bar
La Divina Enoteca
Relaxed wine bar behind Florence’s Mercato Centrale. The wine list has 10 or 12 excellent labels by the glass, and they also stock beers from Italian microbreweries like Birrificio del Ducato, Bruton, and Lilium. It closes at 8:30pm, and all day Monday. -
Bars & Pubs
La Terrazza at the Continentale
Only classic cocktails are served here—a well-made Negroni, Cosmopolitan, and the like—and prices are a little steep at around 15€ a tipple. But the setting, on a rooftop right by the Ponte Vecchio, makes them cheap at the price. The atmosphere is fashionable but casual (wear what… -
Coffee Houses
Le Terrazze
The prices, like the perch, are a little elevated (3€–5€ for a coffee). But you get to enjoy your drink on a hidden terrace in the sky, with just the rooftops, towers, and Brunelleschi’s dome for company -
Libreria-Café La Cité
A relaxed cafe-bookshop by day, after dark this place becomes a bar and small-scale live music venue. The lineup is eclectic, often offbeat or world music, one night forrò or swing, the next Italian folk or chanteuse. Check their Facebook page to see what’s on. -
Bar
Mayday
A Florence original, this laidback bar offers virgin and eccentric signature cocktails commemorating famous Tuscans and events in 20th-century history. Decked out like a mismatched junk store, there’s a randomness that’s genuinely effective—everything from old school desks to… -
Bar
Mostodolce
Burgers, pizza, snacks, Wi-Fi, and sports on the screen—so far, so good. And Mostodolce also has its own artisan beers on tap, brewed just outside Florence at Prato (some are very strong). Happy hour is 3:30 to 7:30pm, when it is 4€ a pint. -
Performing Arts Venue
Opera di Firenze
This vast new concert hall and arts complex seats up to 1,800 in daring modernist surrounds on the edge of the Cascine Park. Its program incorporates opera, ballet, and orchestral music. In May and June, the same venue hosts the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, one of Italy’s most… -
Bar
Rifrullo
This friendly San Niccolò bar has one of Florence’s best aperitivo spreads, perennially popular with locals and visitors. For 10€, choose a cocktail, beer, or glass of wine and help yourself to a buffet loaded with pasta, salads, ribollita, and more. You won’t need dinner… -
Bar
Santino
This snug wine bar stocks niche labels from across Italy and serves exquisite “Florentine tapas” (5€–9€) to munch while you sip. Via Santo Spirito 60R. -
Bar
Sant’Ambrogio
This wine and cocktail bar is in a lively part of the center, northeast of Santa Croce. It is popular with locals without being too achingly hip. In summer, everyone spills out onto the little piazza and church steps outside. -
The Performing Arts
St. Mark’s
Operatic duets and full-scale opera performances in costume are the lure here. The program sticks to the classics like “Carmen,” “La Traviata,” and “La Bohème,” and runs most nights of the week all year. -
The Performing Arts
Teatro Verdi
Touring shows, “serious” popular music, one-off revues, classical music and dance, as well as the Orchestra della Toscana, occupy the stage at Florence’s leading all-round theater. -
Wine bar
Volpi e L’Uva
The wines by the glass list is 30-strong, the atmosphere is relaxed, and the terrace on a little piazza beside Santa Felicità is a delight. It’s the kind of place you just sink into. Glasses from 4€. Closed Sundays. -
Coffee Houses
Volume
By day, it’s a laid-back cafe and art space selling coffee, books, and crepes. By night, it serves aperitivo from 6:30pm then becomes a buzzing cocktail bar with live acoustic sets.
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