Now after the names part, what's a tiny village and what's a medium sized town? Don Michel, here's your chance to impress us with your Sicilian knowledge...

I like the way you use the littlest amount of energy possible to help you with your project. Reminds me of me. But i'm sure it wouldn't take too long to look in a map would it? I mean i've found loads of maps of Sicily on the internet when i've been considering my travelling plans. I don't understand why this is in the mafia - real life forum though.

Well, actually I needed a city that had only a small influnce by the mafia. But I if I only looked at the map, what chance would I find one?
And I wanted a name that was not casual--American equivalent: Joe Bob, John Dale, Henry Davis, etc. DO you know what I mean?

Ah right, thats fair enough then, I get you now. You should have just said that in the first place. I'd help you in any way possible because I'd hope anyone else to do the same for me in here.

How about Montelepre.

Piazza Armarina is quitte small, Corleone aswell. Siracusse is a medium sized town even as Enna. Palermo, Messina and Catania (where i live) are the only three big towns at Sicily.

By the way, if you need twenty small towns

just ask for it. We have lots of them.

How about Savoca and Taormina?

Since Corleone, Sicily, was too developed even in the early 70s to be used for filming, the Sicilian town of Savoca outside of Taormina was used instead. This is where you'll find Bar Vitelli and the church Michael was married in. Look here.

JG

Savoca is ok, and still "Old Fashion". Taormina is good for the tourist :D, who don't want to go to Spain or so. Even as Giardini Naxos.

I always knew it was a town near Taormina that was filmed instead of the actual Corleone instead of Corleone. But after reading the Godfather Legacy book it says they used Forza D'agro. Does anyone know more about this? Or should I post it in another thread?

They could've used more than one town, but Bar Vitelli and the church are in Savoca. I'll ask Harlan Lebo about Forza D'agro....

JG

If they keep giving you help, you may have to add all their names on your project.....split the $$$$ too

My great-grandparents came from a little village called Santa Ninfa which is located a bit northeast of Castelvetrano. Don't know how much influence La Cosa Nostra had there though, can't get too much info on the village. My grandpa's brother said I have no surviving family over there. So who knows?

I was born in Syracuse, Sicily. My dad is a 100% Sicilian, my mom is Dutch. When i was four years old my mom wants to go back to the Netherlands, so we moved to Amsterdam where my dad founded a Italian Restaurant (NOT a Pizzeria).

At the age of thirtytwo i moved back to Sicily because i wanted to search my roots. I live in Catania for three years now and i enjoy it every day.

There's no question I'll visit Sicily someday. And I'm only half Sicilian myself...the other half is German. I'd love to visit where both sides of my family came from. I know if I go to Sicily though, I'll probably never come back to the America.
I doubt if I have any roots left over in Santa Ninfa. If you ever drop by the west end of the island...feel free to ask around about the Lagrassa's.

I'm back to bring up an old topic. Geoff i've found some more information backing up Forza D'Agro as the place in Sicily.
Forza D\'Agro

Is there any more closure on this yet?

Also was Tommansino's place around Savoca/Taormina. It's called Villa Palantia, I found this out a good while ago, it was probably on this message board that I did. But I can't find anything online about it.

What about Castellemmare del Golfo, birthplace of Joe Bonanno, and the casus belli of the famous Castellemmarese War of 1930-31?