The Tuscan town of Leccio is best known for The Mall, a fashion outlet behemoth featuring luxury brands such as Prada, Ermanno Scervino, Roberto Cavalli, and the like, on sale at popular prices. Buses departing regularly from Florence city center ferry tourists to and fro this glorified strip mall, which gets a similar number of yearly visitors as the Uffizi Gallery, making it de-facto one of the main attractions of the city on the Arno.

You might see it as a convenient and aesthetic spot to cop some otherwise unaffordable gear, or you might find it to be a monument to consumerism and a cheapening of high couture. But the little Leccio could have something else going for it.