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Cinisi is a comune in the province of Palermo in Sicily. In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality. ... Palermo (It. ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ...


The Falcone-Borsellino Airport of Palermo is found in the territory of Cinisi, a small village west of Palermo, found between the mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. As of 2007 Cinisi had an estimated population of 11,363. [1] For other uses, see Palermo (disambiguation). ...


Cinisi is famous, among other things, for the Carnevale Parade with many paper-machier floats. It is also the birthplace of Sicilian poet Giovanni Meli, anti-mafia activist Peppino Impastato (the movie, I Cento Passi, the biography of Impastato, was filmed here), and others. Giovanni Meli (Palermo 1740 - 1815) was a Sicilian poet and man of letters. ... Peppino Impastato in 1977 Giuseppe Impastato (Cinisi, January 5, 1948 – Cinisi, May 9, 1978) was a political activist who opposed the Mafia that ordered his murder in 1978. ...


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  1. ^ "The World Gazetteer". Retrieved on 2007-02-24.

Coordinates: 38°09′N 13°06′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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Cinisi (from the Latin "Cinis", ash) finds its origins in an arabic country house existing since the XI century, close to the Sanctuary of the "Madonna del Furi" (1758); the country house was abandoned in 1200 when the inhabitants were defeated and deported from the Norman people.
Decorated in the inside with paintings and marbles, it keeps several paintings of neapolitan school representing the "Misteri del Rosario", belonging to the 18th century In the street dedicated to him, you will find the house of the poet Giovanni Meli, bard of Nature and of simple and country life.
He lived in Cinisi for long periods of his life.
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