🔗 Florence "Amerigo Vespucci" Airport — better known by its ICAO code LIRQ or IATA code FLR — is one of Italy's most distinctive and operationally interesting airports. Sitting in the Florentine plain just a few kilometres north-west of one of the world's most celebrated city centres, Peretola is a compact urban airport with a character entirely its own. Barelli MSFS Addons has brought this beloved Italian airport to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024.
Barelli MSFS Addons has developed a reputation for detailed Italian airport scenery, and this Florence Peretola release continues in that direction. The scenery covers the full airport environment at LIRQ, recreating the compact terminal building, the limited but accurate apron layout, and the characteristic single-runway configuration that defines the real-world airport. Given that Florence has no jet bridges and typically handles boarding by bus or on foot, the ground environment carries a particular significance.
The scenery also integrates with Barelli's proprietary bma device system, which provides lighted stop bars, custom ground vehicles, Visual Docking Guidance Systems (VDGS), and animated hangar doors. These are interactive, functional elements rather than purely decorative additions. To make use of these features, the bma-vdgs CORE package is required. The system is shared across all Barelli airports that feature VDGS, stop bars, or hangar doors, so if you already have it installed for another Barelli title, no additional steps are needed.
For those who enjoy Italian routes, Florence slots naturally into a variety of itineraries — short domestic hops to Rome Fiumicino or Milan, European legs to Paris or Amsterdam, or connections within the Tuscan airport system alongside Pisa. The airport's operational character — tight, urban, performance-sensitive — makes it a welcome contrast to the large international hub airports that tend to dominate scenery libraries. LIRQ Florence Peretola Airport by Barelli MSFS Addons is available now for both Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. You can find the 🔗 add-on on the Flightsim.to Store.