Montalbanotour

28/02/2024

The Turkish Steps in the last clip by Lara Fabian

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25/02/2024

Exploring Montalbano's Sicily. Vigata and Montelusa in the books and on the screen. Filming locations. Differences between the literary and televised portrayals.

17/03/2023

A true story that seems to come out of Camilleri's pen with the writer as protagonist!

The town of Porto Empedocle in Sicily, Italy, has made a shocking discovery. A letter signed by Andrea Camilleri that authorized the use of the name "Vigata" in conjunction with the town's name was found in a landfill. The authorization had allowed the town to use the name "Vigata" after Porto Empedocle. The letter was signed by Camilleri, the mayor of the time, Paolo Ferrara, and the city councilor, Antonio Guido, and was stamped by the town's registry office. The letter was written in Camilleri's home in 2003, and it became a source of pride for the town.

The town is conducting an internal investigation into how the letter ended up in a landfill. The letter's discoverer has contacted Camilleri's family to return the document to them. The town's only remaining sign with the name "Vigata" has been contributing to the town's tourism development for the past 20 years. The town's current mayor, Calogero Martello, has expressed his shock and has launched an investigation into the matter.

28/04/2022

Angela A wrote a review Apr 23
Albuquerque, New Mexico

A must for Montalbano book lovers
The Montalbano Tour did not dissapoint. My husband and I love the Montalbano books. We toured both "Montelusa" (Agrigento) and "Vigàta" (Porto Empedocle) and Michele even introduced us to the real life Enzo where we had lunch.

Michele Gallo has a unique way of weaving in the important social structure in Sicily and the Agrigento region to the tour and books of both Andrea Camilleri and Luigi Pirandello.

Pirandello literay works were important in shaping how Camilleri evolved in his writing career.

In "Montelusa" we saw where both writers went to school, the Comissioners Office, the head offices of the Carabinieri, and learned of an important and very unique story between Saint Calogero and Cameilleri.

In Vigàta, we saw the Pasture, the fish docks where Fazio gets into some trouble, we saw where Salvo Montalbano meets Ingrid for the first time. Honestly it was like having the place where Montalbano lived and worked come alive...and as the books were written on real places, it was easy to do.

For fans of the books, this is a must. The tour was so much more than seeing the actual places Camilleri based his books on, Michele Gallo's brilliance is setting the context for the books in the social fabric of life in this region and was very thought provoking and humbling.

This adventure was transformative in how I see the people of Sicily, it"s complex social structure, Sicily's triumphs and its massive power struggles that exist today. Economically depressed and historically stripped of its resources, Sicily and its people have a long road ahead to share in the wealth that was once theirs and will be again....

05/12/2021

Riccardino or the end of Montalbano

Riccardino is far from the usual structure of a Montalbano novel.

21/04/2021

Six years ago today, some scenes of “Come Vuole la Prassi (As per procedure) were filmed in the Valley of the Temples. It was the first time that an episode of Inspector Montalbano was filmed in Agrigento, in the places described by Andrea Camilleri in his books. Here are some photos of the shooting, including one of Alberto Sironi, the director, who died in 2019