Cinisi
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Cinisi is a comune in the province of Palermo in Sicily.
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]
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.
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- ^ "The World Gazetteer". Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
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