Corleone

Corleone is a small town of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy. It is mostly known as the birthplace of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina and his bloodthirsty faction. Even though the name of the city means "Lionheart", mafia has had a stranglehold on the local community for decades, and only recently segments of the population have found the courage to rebel.

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The city was once dominated by the Arabs, who brought about a remarkable economic and political growth and gave the name Qurlayun, and then the Normans.

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Still present is a lookout tower built between the 11th and 12th century known as Saracena. The vista offers the opportunity to admire the Cascata delle Due Rocche, a sheer drop along the course of the Corleone river.

Sicily: Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. km and 5 million inhabitants....

Italy: Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries...

Mafia: The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as La Cosa Nostra (variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the name for a secret, criminal organisation which evolved in mid 19th century Sicily, and led to an offshoot on the East-Coast of the United States emerging during the late 19th ce...

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