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 two years. He was educated from 1575 to 1578 in the Vallombrosa Abbey, about 30 km southeast of Florence. The surname Galilei derives from the given name of an ancestor, Galileo Bonaiuti, a physician, university teacher and politician who lived in Florence from 1370 to 1450; his descendants had changed their family name from Bonaiuti (or Buonaiuti) to Galilei in his honor in the late 14th century. Galileo Bonaiuti was buried in the same church, the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, where about 200 years later his more famous descendant Galileo Galilei was also buried. It was common