Rome
Summer 1957 Joseph Bonanno arrives on Rome’s airport and get welcomed by Italy’s minister of foreign Affairs Bernardo Mattarella.

Bonanno in Rome’s Excelsior Hotel
10 october 1957 Bonanno was observed at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome and various nightclubs in Rome, in his company were 4 unidentified men.

Palermo meeting in Albergo delle Palmo (Hotel Des Palmes)
10 october 1957 arrived the biggest delegation ever of american mobsters to visit Sicily they stay in Palermo's Hotel Des Palmes also known as the Hotel Delle Palme it is the most famous hotel of palermo.

Palermo's Spano Restaurant
12 Octobre 1957 Bonanno is a guest of Luciano in Spano Restaurant in Palermo at a party which is also attended by Tommaso Buscetta, Carmine Galante, Salvatore "cicchiteddu" Greco, Gaetano Badalamenti, Angelo and Salvatore La Barbera.

Philip Brucola visits Luciano and Adonis
Philip Brucola visited in 1957 in Italy Charles Lucky Luciano and Joseph Doto Adonis.

Bonanno at Compani Airport
13 october 1957 Bonanno was observed with the other 4 unidentified men at the Compani Airport.

Palermo meeting in Albergo delle Palmo (Hotel Des Palmes)
14 Octobre 1957 Bonanno also attends a meeting at hotel “Des Palmes”, in Palermo accompanied by his underboss Carmine Galante and the americans John Bonventre, Frank Garofalo, John Priziola from Detroit, Santo Sorge (originally from Mussomeli and Genco Russo’s nephew), Vito Vitale (from Detroit), John Di Bella (originally from Montelepre), Antonio, Giuseppe and Gaspare Magaddino. From Sicily there are Giuseppe Genco Russo (boss of Mussomeli), Salvatore " cicchiteddu" Greco, Cesare Manzella and the Badalamenti brothers from Cinisi, Calcedonia Di Pisa, Gioacchino Pennino, Rosario Mancino, Filippo and Vincenzo Rimi (Alcamo), Antonio Minore (Trapani), "Mimi" La Fatta, Nicola Gentile (Siculiana and US deportee), Luciano Liggio (Corleone), Frank Coppola (Partinico and US deportee), Diego Plaia (Castellammare), Salvatore and Angelo La Barbera (Palermo Central). Luciano and Bonanno get the Sicilians so far they start La Cupola in Palermo with the American Commission as example. La Cupola gets presided by Salvatore "cicchiteddu" greco.


"The king is dead, long live the king!"