{"id":10455,"date":"2026-05-05T20:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=10455"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:59:12","slug":"the-godfather-descended-on-a-tiny-sicilian-village-and-its-never-been-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/the-godfather-descended-on-a-tiny-sicilian-village-and-its-never-been-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Godfather\u2019 descended on a tiny Sicilian village, and it\u2019s never been the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em><strong>CNN Travel<\/strong><\/em> <\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Trimarchi appeared in a key Sicilian sequence: the wedding of mafia-boss-in-waiting Michael Corleone and Apollonia Vitelli, filmed in the hilltop village of Savoca. For her, the arrival of Coppola and the film\u2019s star Al Pacino, marked the end of adolescence in a place where life had changed little for centuries.<br><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-628800766.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10458 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-628800766.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-628800766-450x253.jpg 450w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2000\/1125;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit:\u00a0<em>denisav\/iStockphoto\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/savoca-sicily-village-godfather-movie-location\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of St. Nicol\u00f2 in Savoca in Sicily was the location of the wedding scene in &#8220;The Godfather.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":10458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"pmpro-has-access"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-628800766.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10460,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10455\/revisions\/10460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}