As far as shopping is concerned you only have to choose your preferred
purchase: gold, jewellery, watches, clothes, shoes, shirts, ties, leather bags, Florentine paper, antique pictures, prints, mosaics, wrough iron, etc. You can also visit a typical enoteca (specialist wine vendor) close by, if you are looking for a special wine, or you can go to the Straw Market if you want a handsome Florentine straw hat....

Everything is close by: the House of Dante, the Bargello Sculpture Museum, the ancient Church of the Badia Fiorentina, the Church of Orsanmichele, Palazzo Vecchio, the Uffizi Gallery, Ponte Vecchio, the Duomo...on the corner there is a pharmacy and a little further on the Post Office, American Express, banks, change offices and taxi stands...