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,
Alessandro Galilei Madonna del Vivaio (since rebuilt) in Scarperia, Tuscany. In 1730 the Florentine patrician Lorenzo Corsini was elected as Pope Clement XII and called Galilei to Rome in 1731 to build his family's chapel, the "Cappella Corsini" in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (completed 1732). During the next six years, Galilei created all of his most notable works, which were executed in a Classical, anti-Baroque style. The most notable of these was the façade of San Giovanni in Laterano, a commission awarded after a competition (1733–1736). The monumental severity and palace character of the façade caused a scandal in