Capaci No Mafia Tour, Italy

Capaci, known throughout the world for a mafia massacre, is much more than this: it is a lively centre, with a strong social component, which offers kilometers of beach, nature, caves, good food.

Highlights:

• Retrace the years prior to the Capaci massacre

• Experience those moments through the memories of a witness

• Admire one of the most beautiful panoramas in the province of Palermo

Includes:

• A guide

• Solidarity fee in support of the activities of the Addiopizzo Committee

Not included:

• Admissions to unspecified museums and monuments

• Transport to/from Capaci

• Drinks and other extras

After meeting your guide at the meeting point, your Capaci tour will start from the dutiful memory of the 1992 massacre: the first stop is at the Garden of Memory, built on the site where the highway was ripped apart by the TNT and where some locals rushed spontaneously as soon as they heard the explosion. Among them, Antonio, who as a young photographer witnessed an event that changed his life forever. His words let us immediately enter a hot period in the history of Italy, and tell us a story that is still "alive".

You will then move on to the famous Casina NO MAFIA: the climb between villas and uncultivated land, takes us along the mountain towards one of the most evocative panoramas in the province of Palermo. Such beauty counterbalances the story of the dynamics of the attack on May 23, 1992, in which judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three of the escort agents lost their lives.

The facts narrated are intertwined with the still unsolved mysteries of a massacre of enormous complexity, carried out in ways never seen before in the previous Cosa Nostra attacks.

At the foot of the Casina, the mafia commando prepared the attack and triggered the explosion with a remote control. And right here, following the massacre, a group of citizens from Capaci felt the need to send out a clear message: armed with ladders and paint, they wrote NO MAFIA in large letters on the wall, so that it was clear to all those who they traveled the highway that not all Sicilians are mafiosi.

The return to the starting point gives us the opportunity to take a short tour of Capaci, among small restaurants and typical delicatessens, small gardens redeveloped and equipped for games and sports by local associations, the delightful Mother Church and various murals.