Savoca | |
Official Name: | Comune di Savoca |
Coordinates: | 37.9558°N 15.3394°W |
Region: | Sicily |
Metropolitan City: | Messina (ME) |
Frazioni: | Botte, Cantidati, Contura, Cucco, Mancusa, Mortilla, Rina, Rogani, Romissa, Scorsonello, San Francesco di Paola |
Mayor: | Antonino Bartolotta |
Area Total Km2: | 9.08 |
Population Total: | 1714 |
Population As Of: | 31 August 2017 |
Population Demonym: | Savocesi |
Elevation M: | 330 |
Postal Code: | 98038 |
Area Code: | 0942 |
Savoca (Sicilian: Sàvuca) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170km (110miles) east of Palermo and about 30km (20miles) southwest of Messina.
Savoca borders the following municipalities: Casalvecchio Siculo, Forza d'Agrò, Furci Siculo, Sant'Alessio Siculo, Santa Teresa di Riva. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").[1]
The town, together with Forza d'Agrò, was the location for the scenes set in Corleone of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972).[2] Bar Vitelli in Savoca, which is still a functioning establishment, was featured in the motion picture as the place where Michael Corleone asked Apollonia's father to meet his daughter.