The real Mafia state
With headlines shouting how SA has become lost to our own brand of the Cosa Nostra, it’s intriguing to see what has become of the true home of the Mafia, Sicily
29 September 2022 - 05:00
Marlon Brando and Al Pacino don’t live here. But Sicily makes us an offer we can’t refuse: to come and see for ourselves that the achingly beautiful, elegantly crumbling, rough-edged, warm-hearted island is not a Mafia movie set.
Even so, it doesn’t help that the climax of The Godfather Part 3 — when Mary, Michael Corleone’s daughter, is killed by a bullet meant for her father — was filmed on the steps of Teatro Massimo, the opera house that dominates the Piazza Verdi square and is the pride of Palermo. ..
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