Sicily Region Of Italy - Italian Movie Trips

Cities & Towns Of Sicily Italy:

Although Cefalu is a small town, its many beautiful beaches are popular with the people of Palermo and beach life is active. Cefalu is equally famous for its massive Duomo, full of cross-cultural architectural borrowings, particularly the life-sized depictions of Christ in an elaborate Byzantine style. The Temple of Diana high above the city and the sea is an exceptional place for scenic views, reflection, and worship of ancient religions.

Movies Filmed in Cefalu Italy:

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

The greatest highs and lows of the director's upbringing in a small Sicilian town, including his unforgettable apprenticeship with the local cinema projectionist and the many townsmen who never missed a movie.

Corleone

Corleone is really a small village made famous by depictions in popular mafia films, but it's been rewarded more recently with an anti-mafia museum showing the history of well-known mafia hits.

Movies Filmed On Location in Corleone Italy:

The Godfather (1972)

The large and well-connected Corleone family has made a good business from its Sicilian friends and neighbors, but loyalties and business relations become bloodied as competing families move into their territory.

Messina Italy:

Messina is an exceptionally modern and busy city, but when you need a vacation from night clubs and church tours, you'll also find tranquil beaches, clear Mediterranean seas, and plenty of opportunities to explore the mountains surrounding the city. Frequent ferries will also take you to the seven small Aeolian Islands.

Movies Filmed On Location in Messina Italy:

Malena

An adolescent boy on the Sicilian shore develops an obsession with a stunning young woman, played by model Monica Bellucci, whose husband has gone to war. By the director of Nuevo Cinema Paradiso.

Palermo Italy:

Palermo is the capital of Sicily, but it has been built under the reign of several foreign empires, including the Moors and Normans who managed to combine architectural designs in awe-inspiring ways. The Palitina chapel with its detailed gold mosaics is just one exceptional example. In Palermo you can also see a puppet museum with Sicilian and international puppetry designs, and a giant outdoor theater, Massimo, featured in The Godfather: Part III

Movies filmed on location in Palermo:

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

The greatest highs and lows of the director's upbringing in a small Sicilian town, including his unforgettable apprenticeship with the local cinema projectionist and the many townsmen who never missed a movie.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

A psychopath with few actual talents arrives in Italy and pretends to be the wealthy socialite he was originally asked to protect. By the same director as the The English Patient.

Salina Italy:

Salina is one of the largest of the Aeolian Islands, yet it is still an exceptionally green and undeveloped place, with few tourists. Parts of Il Postino were filmed at the Semaforo Di Pollara rock formations and the beach at Pollara is an astonishing combination of clear blue water and dark, volcanic sand.

Movies Filmed On Location in Salina Italy:

Caro Diario

Renowned Italian director Nani Moretti travels throughout Italy and the Aeolian Islands on a trusty little moped, comparing the lifestyles and cultures of each region with a comic and secretly tragic appreciation.

Il Postino

A simple postman working in the Italian islands near Sicily befriends the reclusive poet Pablo Neruda and learns to express his love for a distant woman in heartfelt letters. Filmed mainly at Marina Corricella and Pozzo Vecchio beach in tiny Procida.

Taormina Italy:

Taormina is an exceptionally busy and provocative vacation destination. It has an stunning Greek theater facing Mt. Etna, justifiably famous beaches and excellent panoramic views of the sea. In the town itself you are surrounded by colorful gardens and crenellated Moorish architecture (from long occupations of the past). You might also take a guided trip from Taormina to the base of the volcanic Mt. Etna or higher.

Movies Filmed on Location in Taormina Italy:

Le Grand Bleu

Two childhood friends who have dedicated their lives to dolphin life and deep blue ocean take up a friendly competition to see who can stay under the water longest, while the rest of the world tries to understand just how they do it.

Malena

An adolescent boy on the Sicilian shore develops an obsession with a stunning young woman, played by model Monica Bellucci, whose husband has gone to war. By the director of Nuevo Cinema Paradiso.

Mighty Aphrodite

Woody Allen is a writer who decides to meet the mother of his adopted son, as it turns out, a prostitute whose raw honesty teaches him more than he expected. The Greek chorus dramatizing the tragedy throughout makes appearances at the Greek theater in Taormina.

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Having recently been appointed Don of the mildly criminal Corleone family, once idealistic young Michael faces increasingly savage decisions as he negotiates dangerous political allegiances inside and outside the family. His choices begin to parallel those of his father, whose criminal reputation is remembered in long flashbacks of a placid but mafia-ridden Sicily.