Cinisi | ||
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State | Italy | |
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Region | Sicily | |
Territory | Gulf of Castellammare | |
Altitude | 75 m a.s.l. | |
Surface | 33.16 km² | |
Inhabitants | 12.284 (2019) | |
Name inhabitants | Cinisari | |
Prefix tel | 39 091 | |
POSTAL CODE | 90045 | |
Time zone | UTC 1 | |
Patron | Santa Fara | |
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Cinisi is a city of Sicily.
To know
Cinisi was the source of inspiration of the Sicilian poet Giovanni Meli, but above all for the death at the hands of the mafia Peppino Impastato.
How to orient yourself
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38 ° 9′50 ″ N 13 ° 6′47 ″ E
Cinisi![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Cinisi-Corso_Umberto-bjs0701-01.jpg/220px-Cinisi-Corso_Umberto-bjs0701-01.jpg)
Corso Umberto
The main street of Cinisi is Corso Umberto I.
Fractions
- Punta Raisi
- Magaggiari
- Loan Camarrone
- Table top
- Maggi plan
- Pozzillo
- Fondorsa
- Onion
- Peri plan
- Cabbage Plan
- Ciciritto
How to get
By plane
- Trapani-Birgi airport (Vincenzo Florio Airport) - National and European flights operate from and to Trapani Birgi, both scheduled and low cost. Seasonal tourist flights in the summer.
- Palermo-Punta Raisi Airport (Falcone and Borsellino Airport) - The airport operates national and international flights, and various connections low cost. Numerous periodic tourist flights in summer e charter.
On the train
- 1 Cinisi-Terrasini station.
How to get around
What see
- 1 Mother Church of Santa Fara, Piazza Vittorio E. Orlando.
- 2 Sanctuary of the Madonna del Furi, SP20, ☎ 39 3387317931.
- 3 Church of the Ecce Homo, Corso Umberto I, ☎ 39 3405551854.
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Mulinazzo Tower
- 4 Mulinazzo Tower (locality of Punta del Mulinazzo which is located inside the Falcone and Borsellino Airport). Coastal defense tower that was part of the Sicilian coastal tower system.
- 5 Pozzillo Tower (locality "Puzziddu" right at the junction of the motorway for Falcone and Borsellino Airport). It is a coastal defense tower that was part of the Sicilian coastal tower system.
- 6 Torre della Tonnara dell'Ursa (tonnara dell'Orsa), ☎ 39 3713086854. Coastal defense tower that was part of the Sicilian coastal tower system as a defensive sighting system for Saracen ships. Subsequently the tower was used for the sighting of the schools of tuna for the annexed trap.
- 7 Casa Memoria Felicia and Peppino Impastato, Corso Umberto I, 220, ☎ 39 0918666233.
Mon-Sun 09: 30-12: 30 16: 30-19: 30.
- 8 Former Casa Badalamenti, Corso Umberto I, 183. In this building, now used as a municipal library, there lived Tano Badalamenti, the boss of the mafia who ordered the killing of Peppino Impastato and whose house is just 100 steps from the victim's house. The famous scene from the film The Hundred Steps was also filmed here.
Events and parties
What to do
- 1 Bathing at Cinisi beach.