Can anyone please help. I am flying to Sicily for a week at the end of August. I am going to do some Godfather sightseeing, obviously. Does anyone know where the villa is located that Michael and Connie and the rest stayed at in G3. The pictures and locations of Don Tommasinos villa, where Michael later dies, is a different place, I am sure, though I could be wrong.

Many thanks

Dave

According to Harlan Lebo, most of the Sicilian scenes in GF were filmed in and around Taormina. The town of Forza d'Agro served as "Corleone." Don Tommassino's mansion is called Villa Palatantia, but he doesn't say where it is.

I tried a Google search for "Villa Palatantia" and came up empty-handed. A little additional searching, however, and I found a website called The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations (click here for their homepage). They have a page listing GF3 filming locations (click here for that page).

On that page it says:

The Sicilian villa of Don Tommasino, where Michael finally dies, is Castello degli Schiavi, near Fiumefreddo, where Apollonia was killed in the original The Godfather.

So here, the villa is referred to as Castello degli Schiavi (which means "Castle of the Slaves"). It is located in Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, which is in the Sicilian province of Catania.

A Google search for Castello degli Schiavi will yield lots of websites and several photographs. Most of the websites are in Italian, but some are in English.

Hope this helps a little.

Signor V.

The locations provided by both Signor Vitelli and Turnbull are correct.

The scenes that were supposed to have been in the town of Corleone were actually shot in a small town in Taormina called Forza D' Agro.

Are you going to Palermo?



CLICK HERE to see the topic that I started over in the general discussion forum about my trip to Italia.

It's simply beautiful!

My thanks and respect to all of you for your help.

David

Hallo,

i think he means

Villa Malfitano in Palermo.

I was in Sicily in May 07. This is the Location where Michael an Conny and the rest stayed in GF3.

Kloesie

So David, tell us about your trip! Post something over in The GENERAL DISCUSSION thread about it. I would love to hear where you went and what you thought.