Hey there! I am looking at the website for Trenitalia and wanting to travel from Florence to Rome.

I believe the train station I need is SMN.

My question what is the difference between Firenze vs. Florence?

And is there only one train station in Rome?

thank you!

8-)

Florence is the English translation of the Italian city of Firenze.

Hi cw,

>what is the difference between Firenze vs. Florence?

Firenze is a city in Italy.

Florence is a city in Alabama.

Yes, you want the Santa Maria Novella (SMN) station.

"Florence is a city in Alabama."

She was also one hell of a nurse.

cwozo99

Florence is the English name for firenze, in Italian, just like Rome, in Italian, is roma.

Yes there is more than one train station in Rome. If you are travelling from firenze to roma, you will arrive in Termini station, the main station. The Tiburtina is the other station which serves some out-lying towns. It is also next to the bus station.

Florence is also a prison in Colorado, USA.

If you are on the English pages of the websites when searching for trains, the English translations should work but don't always. Use the Italian original names and spellings to avoid hassles. Milano for Milan, Torino for Turin, Venezia for Venice, etc.

Genoa (Italian) is Genua in German and Genova in English, Gènes in French...

Geneva is English for Genève (French), Genf (German), Ginebra (Span.), Ginevra (Italian)...

With cities like Munich the plot thickens: Munich in English, München in German, Monaco in Italian (the other Monaco is called Monaco-Monte Carlo), Münich in French.

Nürnberg (German) is Nuremberg in English and in French, Neurenberg in Dutch...

Switzerland (English) is Schweiz in German, Suisse in French, Svizzera in Italian, Zwitserland in Dutch, Suiza in Spanish...

Variety is the spice of life.

"Genoa (Italian) is Genua in German and Genova in English"

I think you've switched Italian and English there.

'Milano for Milan'

The famous football club AC is actually called AC Milan (with accent on the first syllable) because it was originally formed by English expats from Nottingham in 1899 as a cricket club!

'Genova for Genoa'

Another famous football club Genoa CFC has retained its original English name of the city, with CFC standing for Cricket and Football Club.

"Author: jahoulih
Date: 02/08/2009, 05:52 pm
"Genoa (Italian) is Genua in German and Genova in English"

I think you've switched Italian and English there."

Yep, and thanks, somebody is paying attention!

We actually were stopped by some people in a rest stop on the highway between Salzburg and Vienna. They were positive they were lost since all the signs said Wien - and they asked us where they had gone off course.

If you're going to europe you should really learn the local names of the places you;re going.

I have an Aunt Florrie.

<Florence is also a prison in Colorado, USA.>

Arizona, actually.

"...Arizona, actually'''
Not "actually" but "as well as".
The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) is a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, USA. It is unofficially known as ADX Florence, Florence ADMAX, Supermax, or The Alcatraz of the Rockies.[1] It is operated by the federal government and is part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex (FCC). ADX houses the prisoners who are deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control.
Home of the Unabomber Kaczynski, Blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and Ramzi Yousef (1993 World Trade Center bombings), Terry Nichols (OK bombing conspirator), and on and on.

With all these Florence prisons all over the place, is there one left for Firenze?

Yes indeed there are prisons in Florence, Italy. I know as good friends that live there spent some time driving me around the city to show me..why they thought that would be a great sightseeing tour I have no idea but it was interesting. They also told me that non EU citizens are seperated from the EU citizens when in prison. Was that a warning I wondered, lol.

Ira - thank you! That was funny! Definately not going to Alabama!

Thanks for the insight - as you can see I will be fumbling through the language on our trip!

8-)

Sure, there are multiple train stations in Rome, as has been pointed out.

Note too, though, that there are 2 stations in Florence: SMN (S.ta Maria Novella) and the suburban Campo Marzio.

You definitely do not want to descend at the latter when heading to the former.

BTW; Since the enonymous nurse was mentioned: Florence N WAS named for the city of Florence by her rich parents, who were travelling in Italy and fell in love with the place.

No woman was ever called Florence before -- thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, were named Florence thereafter.

Sorry: eponymous

FN was actually born in the city of Florence, at her parents' rented villa called Villa Colombaia, now a Catholic girls school.

And if you read Chinese, you'll see two different names for the city: 佛羅倫斯/佛罗伦斯 that's translated from the English name, and 翡冷翠 from Italian.