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Corleone (Italian: [korleˈoːne]; Sicilian: Cunigghiuni [kʊnɪɟˈɟuːnɪ] or Curliuni [kʊɾlɪˈuːnɪ]) is an Italian town and comune of roughly 11,158 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily.
Corleone is a small town situated on a hill about 500 meters above sea level in the province of Palermo in western Sicily. The town is best known for its churches and for its connection with some of the most powerful families of the mafia.
Dec 13, 2016 · Corleone is indeed known as the town of the 100 churches, due to the presence of nearly 100 ancient churches built over the past centuries. The town is very small, not over 12000 inhabitants and lies a few kilometres away from Palermo.
Aug 15, 2017 · There is an actual town in Sicily called Corleone, located roughly 37 miles south of Palermo. Corleone has an actual Mafia history, too, with a long list of mob bosses hailing from the town and more than 150 Mafia-related deaths in the late 1940s alone.
Sep 9, 2010 · It's a small, old town, which has gained notoriety because of the Mafia, both the film depiction and the reality. However, if you speak to the residents of the town, you will find out that business used to take place in Palermo, while Corleone itself was where the families lived.
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Corleone, city, western Sicily, Italy. The name Qurliyūn is found in Arab sources of the 9th century ce; the city was probably an earlier Byzantine foundation. Made a military center by the Hohenstaufen rulers of Sicily from the 10th century, it later passed under Spanish rule.
Corleone is mostly on the tourist trail because of its mafia connections and particularly as the fictional home to Vito Corleone the main character in 'The Godfather'. Corleone is inland in the north-western part of Sicily.
