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Florentin and the Levinsky Market

In depth·Florentin

Workshops, street art and spice shops in the south of the city.

A large painted mural of a face crowned with roses on a wall in Florentin
A large painted mural of a face crowned with roses on a wall in Florentin
Photo CreditImage courtesy of © LeRenartQuiPense · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Florentin is the city’s workshop quarter, its lanes of small apartments and studios covered in murals and painted shutters. On its edge, the Levinsky Market sells spices and deli food, and Ouzeria looks out over it from Matalon Street.

Sights

The murals and the Levinsky Market.

Eating

Ouzeria.

Cats painted on blue workshop doors in Florentin
Cats painted on blue workshop doors in Florentin
Photo CreditImage courtesy of © LeRenartQuiPense · CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Our advice: the street art changes constantly; look up at the shutters as well as the walls.

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