"If you go to Sicily, don't touch the bananas!" : D Who among you has never seen Johnny Stecchino? Here, go and fix it and then come and read the settings of the film shot in Sicily, between Palermo, Messina and Catania.
One of the most beautiful scenes is undoubtedly the scene of the theater where Dante is sent to be recognized as a Stecchino, this theater is the Massimo Opera House, Piazza Teatro Massimo a Catania. Instead do you remember when they take Roberto Benigni to the barber where to be killed? Here this shop is located in Piazza Durante a Messina.
A Bagheria, Palermo is instead the splendid villa, the Villa Spedaletto where Johnny Stecchino is hiding. While always a Messina there are two other locations of the film, the one where the gangsters on the street recognize Johnny, in via Torrente Mazzeo and the very famous scene of the greengrocer and bananas, also in Messina in Via Vittorio Emanuele.
La carabinieri barracks where Benigni takes refuge after stealing a banana Common is the barracks of Corso Umberto I - Giardini Naxos, Messina while the hilarious scene of misunderstandings in the Villa is in Palermo and the villa is Villa Malfitano Whitaker.
