Where was Cinema Paradiso filmed?

1988 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

Cinema Paradiso (1988) was filmed in Palermo — 1 recorded filming location in Italy. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.

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Filming locations

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  🏙 Towns & cities

  Palermo

  🇮🇹 Italy

  capital of Sicily, Italy

Also per Wikipedia's Production section

Wikipedia’s Production section names 2 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

2 places whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Bagheria Italy

  “Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore portrayed his love for Bagheria in the multiple award-winning film Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) in 1989, and again in the 2009 film Baarìa, featuring the history of the town from the 1930s to the 1980s through the life of a local family.” Wikipedia

• Cefalù Italy

  “Some scenes of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 film Cinema Paradiso were filmed in Cefalù.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in Sicily, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

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