The history of Sicily also passed through his films and one of the most famous is definitely The Godfather, directed by Coppola in 1972. The first and follow the other two in this saga, that consists of 3 films, speaks of Sicily in this typical romance insight regarding the subject of the Mafia. This film that introduced this particular Sicily around the world, although talk of Corleone, was filmed in the surroundings of Catania and Taormina, one of uninhabited villages scenarios and elegant historical villas and ancient castles.

The tour starts from Savoca, which is part of the territory "Valle d'Agro 'and elected one of the" village most beautiful in Italy ". Here was filmed a scene highlight of the film, at Bar Vitelli, in which Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in the scene where he talks to Vitelli, the father of Apollonia, to ask for her hand. Now, at the Bar Vitelli, in addition to taste the delicious homemade lemon granita and very typical zibibbo wine (of which he was also mad Coppola) you can take souvenir photos with cap and shotgun.

Than the tour continues by one of the medieval village of Forza d'Agro, which still retains its original structure and in which were filmed many scenes of the film, a country that is a balcony on the Ionian Sea from its lookout you can admire the coast from Messina to Syracuse, Taormina and Castelmola, the bay of Giardini Naxos and the imposing Mount Etna volcano.

We stop to eat in lovely restaurant where you can taste typical dishes and then turn towards the Castello degli schiavi, a splendid jewel of the '700 rural Sicilian Baroque. The castle is owned by the Family Platania, barons of Santa Lucia, and is the baron himself will lead guests to the visit of this castle that reaches achieved worldwide fame thanks precisely to Francis Ford Coppola who chose as the setting for scenes major, like the unforgettable explosion of the machine, after the wedding. The Castle appears both in Part I of the film that in Part II.

With eyes full of history and emotions you return home.