There’s a beautiful walkway that runs around the south end of Florence that I love to walk. I hadn’t been there is a while and somehow I saw something I don’t recall ever noticing before. It was this small, simple structure. An example of vernacular architecture.

It’s odd, because the majority of the buildings that line this roadway are nothing short of historic Florentine mansions and yet here was this simple little…shed?

As you can see, I’m walking along the beautiful Viale Niccolo Machiavelli, as the plaque on the facade of the shack reveals.

But what caught my attention, and charmed me, was that someone had taken the trouble to faux paint a design on the simple door.

I love the simplicity of the small building and have no idea why it is there or what it was used for. I am beguiled by the fact that the owner (or someone in charge) went to the trouble of faux painting the cute little doorway.