Savoca Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sicilia. 1 August 2023. it.
  2. News: In search of... The Godfather in Sicily . April 26, 2003 . . Independent Digital News and Media Limited . February 12, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150511094252/http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/in-search-of-the-godfather-in-sicily-595994.html . May 11, 2015 . live.