Florence The architectural firms Foster + Partners and Lancietti Passaleva Giordo and Associates designed this new rail station. The Florence Airport, Peretola, is one of two main airports in the Tuscany region though it is not widely used by popular airlines. The other airport in the Tuscany region is the Galileo Galilei International Airport in Pisa. Florence is twinned with: Florence appears in the video games "Assassin's Creed II" and "Assassin's Creed Brotherhood" and was often called Firenze. Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the most populous city in Tuscany,
Galileo Galilei for mid-sixteenth-century Tuscan families to name the eldest son after the parents' surname. Hence, Galileo Galilei was not necessarily named after his ancestor Galileo Bonaiuti. The Italian male given name "Galileo" (and thence the surname "Galilei") derives from the Latin "Galilaeus", meaning "of Galilee", a biblically significant region in Northern Israel. Because of that region, the adjective "galilaios" (Greek "γαλιλαίος", Latin "Galilaeus", Italian "galileo"), which means "Galilean", has been used in antiquity (particularly by emperor Julian) to refer to Christ and his followers; after this, the adjective has been adopted as a name with a meaning similar to "Jesus" or