Capaci
Capaci has served as a rural settlement on Sicily’s Tyrrhenian coast since the Middle Ages. The town lies on the coastal plain west of Palermo, where built-up neighbourhoods meet the lower slopes of the Palermo Mountains and the shore opens onto the Tyrrhenian Sea. Capaci is inseparable from a grave chapter of Italy’s modern history: in 1992, judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and three police escorts were murdered in a Mafia bombing on the A29 motorway nearby. Their deaths became a defining moment in the national fight against Cosa Nostra. Today, Capaci is a residential community in Palermo’s urban orbit and a place of civic remembrance.
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The terrain around Capaci is a Mediterranean coastal strip on the Gulf of Carini, backed by rising inland ground, and it has shaped both the town’s compact development and local economy. On Sicily’s Tyrrhenian shore, Capaci lies west of Palermo and near the routes connecting the city with Falcone Borsellino Airport. The town is closely associated with the 23 May 1992 bombing on the A29 motorway nearby, in which anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and three police escorts were murdered; it remains a defining event in Italy’s civic memory. Its continuous coastal development and proximity to Palermo place Capaci within the city’s wider metropolitan area. Discover additional webcams nearby to see how Capaci and the Gulf of Carini connect with the wider north-west Sicilian coast.
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