Do you know the legend of the Perseus and Medusa? I always loved reading to my daughter mythological stories. So interesting, this was the one that she mostly preferred. In Florence you will find a lot of statues about this subject and the artists where all great and important artist. A very important artist like Caravaggio painted the astonished face of Medusa in the Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece, but if you don't want to enter a museum, you can simply go to Piazza della Sig