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Savoca 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 Messina

Province of Messina

Messina is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital is the city of Messina.-Geography and demography :...

in the Italian

Italy

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region Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

, located about 170 km east 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...

and about 30 km southwest of Messina.

Savoca borders the following municipalities: Casalvecchio Siculo

Casalvecchio Siculo

Casalvecchio Siculo is a comune in the province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 170 km east of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Messina.-Main sights:...

, Forza d'Agrò

Forza d'Agrò

Forza d'Agrò is an Italian town and comune in Sicily, part of the Province of Messina.Forza d'Agrò is on the lower peak of a small mountain, while on the higher peak that overlooks the town are the remains of a Norman castle. Much of the town consists of traditional buildings and stone paved lanes...

, Furci Siculo

Furci Siculo

Furci Siculo is a comune in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 30 km southwest of Messina. Furci Siculo is twinned with Octeville sur Mer since 2010...

, Sant'Alessio Siculo

Sant'Alessio Siculo

Sant'Alessio Siculo is a comune in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 35 km southwest of Messina....

, Santa Teresa di Riva

Santa Teresa di Riva

Santa Teresa di Riva is a small town and comune in the province of Messina, Sicily, about from Taormina. The town was known until 1854 as Marina di Savoca when it was renamed in honor of Teresa d'Austria...

.

The town, together with Forza d'Agrò

Forza d'Agrò

, was the location for the scenes set in Corleone

Corleone

Corleone is a small town and comune of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the Province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy....

of Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

's The Godfather
The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...

. Bar Vitelli in Savoca, which is still a functioning establishment, was featured in the motion picture as the place where Michael Corleone asked Apollonia's father to meet his daughter.

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