What to do and see in Politeama, Sicily: The Best Monuments & Statues

Reviewed By VadimM67 - Murmansk, Russia

Two famous monuments to anti-mafia fighters are installed in Palermo. The most famous Monumento strage di Capaci is set on the road from Palermo to Punta Raisi airport at the site of the murder of judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992. This monument is an earlier one and is dedicated to all those who fell in the fight against the mafia - judges, police officers, journalists, and political activists. The reason for its construction was the murder of two other brave fighters against the mafia-PIO La Torre and General dalla Chiesa in 1982. La Torre was the leader of the Italian Communist party in Palermo and a member of Parliament-a member of the anti-mafia Commission. He published a report on the connections of the top of the ruling Christian democratic party with the leaders of Coppola. Dalla Chiesa was able to uncover the mafia's ties to business and politicians. Not only Italian, but also American. The monument was erected in 1983 by the sculptor Mario Pecorino. It was built by the workers of the Palermo shipyards from a special type of steel, which is patina, consisting of oxides of its alloyed elements. The C-plates, oriented in four directions, meant the mobilization of the entire Palermo against the mafia. I must say that the Italian Republic managed to inflict a serious blow to the mafia. A decade later, in 1992, after the murder of judge Falcone and Prosecutor Borsalino, operation Clean hands brought to the dock the entire top of the Christian Democratic and Socialist parties, led by premiers Andreotti and Craxi, and later by the bosses of cuppola. The sacrifices were not in vain, although people, of course, can not be returned...