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Savoca

A hill village where scenes of The Godfather were filmed, with a church on a crag and a crypt of mummies.

Photo: Eugenio Nicola Scarcella · Public domain
Open
Always
Price
Free; paid for the crypt
Time Needed
2 hours
Address
Savoca, 98038 MessinaDirections
Getting There
About 30 minutes north by car from Taormina.

Why Go

Francis Ford Coppola filmed Michael Corleone's Sicilian wedding here in 1971, at the Church of San Nicolò. The Capuchin crypt holds the mummified bodies of local notables.

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