Lercara Friddi is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Palermo

Province of Palermo

The Province of Palermo is a province in the autonomous region of Sicily, a major island in Southern Italy. Its capital is the city of Palermo. The Province of Palermo has 82 comuni , 1,239,272 inhabitants, and is 4,992 km² .-External links:...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Sicily

Sicily

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, located about 45 km southeast of Palermo

Palermo

Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...

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Founded in 1595 by local feudataries, it is located on the slopes of Madore Hill, between the valleys of Fiumetorto and Platani

Platani

Platani , known in ancient times as Alico is a river in southern Sicily, Italy. It is the fifth longest in the island after Imera Meridionale, Simeto, Belice and Dittaino, with a course of 103 km, and the third for drainage basin with 1,785 km², after the Simeto and Imera Meridionale...

 rivers. In the past it was an important mining centre, the only one in the province of Palermo where sulphur was excavated.

Famous people

• Gangster Lucky Luciano
  Lucky Luciano
  Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian mobster born in Sicily. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first commission...
  
   was born here.
• It was definitely acknowledged that the grandparents of Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
   also came from Lercara Friddi: Francesco and Rosa were father and mother of his father Anthony Martin
  Anthony Martin Sinatra
  Anthony Martin Sinatra , born Antonino Sinatra, was a Hoboken city fireman, professional boxer, bar owner, and father of singer and actor Frank Sinatra....
  
  . However, Sinatra himself maintained for some time that his family was from the Province of Catania
  Province of Catania
  Catania is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Catania.It has an area of 3,552 km², and a total population of 1,073,881 . There are 58 comunes in the province, see Comunes of the Province of Catania...
  
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• Politician Andrea Finocchiaro Aprile was born here.
• Magistrate Pietro Scaglione
  Pietro Scaglione
  Pietro Scaglione was an Italian magistrate and Chief Prosecutor of Palermo . He was killed by the Mafia in 1971.-Fighting the Mafia:...
  
   was born here.
• Football player and manager Nicolò Nicolosi
  Nicolò Nicolosi
  Nicolò Nicolosi is an Italian former football player and manager from Lercara Friddi in the Province of Palermo. Over the course of his career, Nicolosi played for several Serie A clubs...
  
   was born here.
• Italian French-chanson
  Chanson
  A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
  
   singer Frédéric François
  Frédéric François
  Frédéric François is a Belgian – Italian singer, born in Sicily, near Palermo.-Biography:In 1952, his family left his village to settle in Wallonia, Tilleur . When he was 12, he bought a guitar and sang at night in cabarets after work at the mine, with his father...
  
  , born Francesco Barracato on june 3rd 1950 in Lercara Friddi.