Montalbano in Scicli baroque
GRAND TOUR BLOG | 23 August 2019

Montalbano in Scicli baroque

When you dream to live as the Inspector Montalbano you are wanting to visit Scicli.

We present a virtual tour of the venues of the famous fiction Inspector Montalbano: the Police Commissioner, City Hall, Church of San Matteo, St. Bartholomew's Church, Palazzo Beneventano, Mayor's Room of the City of Scicli, the promenade of Marinella.

A beautiful Baroque town Scicli, you will find in the street Francesco Mormina Pen, the old building of the Munipio, that in fiction is the Police Commissioner, where often we have seen the Montalbano arriving with his Fiat Tipo.

San Michele appears, together all’Ancient pharmacy Cartia, episode The smell of the night when Commissioner goes to the pharmacy to buy a bandage to fake a striding, that will serve to justify the delay will travel by the superintendent. The St. Michael's Church also returns or The blade of light together with church of Santa Teresa, and to all the major monuments of the street. Montalbano, aboard his type, retraces the route that the victim would have covered before being robbed, Spadaro stops in front of the building and then reaches Fazio near St John's Church. When fall arrives Augello to the police to continue the investigation.

Even the Town Hall It is a symbol of the TV series, houses the Police Commissioner in which he works Montalbano. There are many scenes shot in front of the palace and along the street where the commissioner Montalbano walks with his colleagues, solves cases, He gets angry and runs into the car to leave for a new investigation. Inside are the offices of the Commissioner and his colleagues Fazio, Augello, Catarella and other. On the first floor there is also the’Office of the Mayor which now it is called by many “Montalbano room”. This is the office of the superintendent of Montelusa, Luca Bonetti Alderighi, with whom he often argues Montalbano. The first meeting between the two, episode The Voice of the Violin, It will be the synthesis of their relationship: "I have some of her esteem", says the superintendent, "I do not either of you," says Montalbano.

Busacca Square with its monuments appears in every episode of the fiction as early as the theme song. In episode a blade of light the Commissioner and the Inspector Fazio enter the courtyard of Convent of the Carmine to talk to a woman, Luigina Castro, that asking for information to solve a case. Immediately after Montalbano talking on the phone with Dr. Pasquano right under the arcades of the monastery.

Even the young Montalbano found himself turning down the film on this square. At the end of lunch in Trattoria da Calogero, that the series was set in a pizzeria Piazza Busacca, the young Commissioner solves a case with the trust Mimi Augello. Comfortably seated at a table on a terrace overlooking the square, before them the plates of lunch just consumed, and behind them the Church of the Carmine, the convent and the statue of Pietro di Lorenzo Busacca.

The square also returns in the episode The treasure hunt. The young Michele crosses Piazza Municipio to meet Montalbano waiting for him to ask him for information about his girlfriend, Ninette a young girl victim of a mysterious kidnapping. The Commissioner questioned the boy on the deck that overlooks the’Aleardi fascinating neighborhood which extends just behind the Church of Madonna del Carmine. A few meters away are acclimatized some scenes of the episode The game of mirrors. Montalbano and Fazio are trying Mrs. Lo Dico Concept to have useful information to solve a case. Before meeting his father and then they reach the lady who is stretching out the clothes in his terrace. The dialogues and atmosphere are particularly colorful and fun.



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