Corleone and the mafia
Giuseppe Ferrara 88 - CC4.0
The fame of the town of Corleone began when its name was linked to the mafia family in the saga of "The Godfather".
The Corleone family does not actually exist and it is only a cinematic fiction, but unfortunately the name of Corleone is closely connected to that of the mafia: in the post-war period there is a mafia escalation of Corleonese mafia bosses, who after bloody mafia wars, took over and ruled over all of Sicily. Thus was born the "Corleonesi clan" whose most important leaders came from the Corleone family: Luciano Liggio, Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Provenzano and Leoluca Bagarella.
The connivance between the organs of the state and the mafia gave rise to the "sack" of Palermo which destroyed vast agricultural territories of the "Conca d'Oro", villas, houses and noble palaces of great architecture to make way for the construction of gigantic reinforced concrete buildings contracted out to mafia companies.
In Corleone, today, after the '' arrest of all the excellent mafia bosses, the close and distant relatives of what once was the mind and at the same time the bloodthirsty armed arm of the mafia live.
In Corleone today it is possible to explore what were the places where they lived and where they hid the Mafia leaders and their lieutenants, such as the building where the boss Bernardo Provenzano hid several times that has now become an anti-mafia laboratory or visit the Anti-Mafia Documentation Center and retrace be the history of the mafia from its birth to the present day.
