Casa Museo Giuseppe Petrosino
Casa Museo Giuseppe Petrosino
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salvatoretranchida
Catania, Italy21 contributions
Sep 2024 • Friends
We were lucky enough to be guided to the visit of the house museum by Joe Petrosino's great-grandson, Nino Melito Petrosino. Very engaging person who told the story of great uncle Joe having had it transmitted orally by his grandfather Michele Petrosino (Joe's brother). A story full of small details that made us understand Joe's personality. Experience highly recommended.
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Written September 30, 2024
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hirundo-rustego
Europe32,337 contributions
Jul 2024 • Couples
.... document the origins of a Policeman who made his name in the USA!
The house is very simple and collects memorabilia of the Character arranged in the upper rooms while you can also see very interesting movies ....
Perhaps the areas in front of the Location should be more careful in terms of cleanliness and ..... street furniture!
Anyway, an episode HERE should be done regardless!!
The house is very simple and collects memorabilia of the Character arranged in the upper rooms while you can also see very interesting movies ....
Perhaps the areas in front of the Location should be more careful in terms of cleanliness and ..... street furniture!
Anyway, an episode HERE should be done regardless!!
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Written July 30, 2024
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Glenn T
Boston, MA10 contributions
Jun 2020
When I was in Padula in June 2019, I visited the Museo. The signora who gave the tour was precise, engaging, and understatedly intense in relaying the history of the late Joe Petrosino, Padula-born New York City police officer murdered by the "Black Hand" crime organization in Sicily in the early 1900s. The museo, in the former Petrosino family home, is a fascinating and authentic tribute to the man, a local hero with an international reputation, and the tour is also upsetting in its graphic photographs of crime scenes of murders undertaken by organized crime over the decades in Italy. A sobering and valuable exploration of a recurring dark theme in Italian and Italian-American history. A memorable destination in Padula.
Written December 8, 2020
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Aetnensis
Catania, Italy115 contributions
Jul 2024 • Family
We knew the place by pure chance, visiting the Certosa di Padule where, with a slight surcharge of a couple of euros, you can buy in one with the ticket for the visit of the Certosa also the one for the house museum.
I start immediately with the "sore note", the only flaw addicted to Google Maps that, in a village with roads even a meter and twenty wide, slopes of 45 ° and stairs passable by car (sic!!), pretends to pass as if you were on foot and, when it recalculates, always brings back to the same absurd point to go.
I strongly Recommendation to leave the car in the City Hall area and walk a few hundred meters, possibly asking for directions because the Municipality of Padula has not really engaged with the signs.
For the rest, the effort, even in spite of the almost 40 ° temperature, was certainly worth doing.
The house, in itself, is nothing exceptional, neither as a structure nor for the furnishings; one of the many dwellings today, perhaps, considered poor but which, in the Padula of the second half of the nineteenth century and until a few decades ago, still had its sober dignity.
Obviously it contains many original furnishings, furnishings and personal accessories and a vast exhibition (limited only by spaces) of all the films, documentaries and celebrations that even in life but especially in the last 100 years, have concerned the policeman Giuseppe "Joe" Petrosino.
Inevitable, since in the end he is a victim of the mafia "ante litteram", the comparison with sad news events more recent.
What is absolutely unique is the passion and friendliness with which the Owner, great-grandson of Joe Petrosino himself, accompanied us during the visit, with a wealth of details on the life and work of his ancestor, certainly better known in the USA (October 19 every year, in New York, the “Petrosino Day” is celebrated) than in Italy; even more relaxing was the long and cordial chat on the terrace of the house (with enchanting views of the valley and the Certosa), talking about the more and less, even with the interest of my teenage daughter, usually unwilling to live with this type; we had an hour and a half drive back to the structure where we stayed, otherwise we would have gone on for who knows how long.
What more can I say?
For us it was a beautiful experience that enriched us with knowledge about a piece of Italian history that we would hardly have known otherwise and it was an opportunity to meet a person "passionate" in carrying on the memory not only about his ancestor but especially about the often reviled life of Italians who emigrated to America.
I start immediately with the "sore note", the only flaw addicted to Google Maps that, in a village with roads even a meter and twenty wide, slopes of 45 ° and stairs passable by car (sic!!), pretends to pass as if you were on foot and, when it recalculates, always brings back to the same absurd point to go.
I strongly Recommendation to leave the car in the City Hall area and walk a few hundred meters, possibly asking for directions because the Municipality of Padula has not really engaged with the signs.
For the rest, the effort, even in spite of the almost 40 ° temperature, was certainly worth doing.
The house, in itself, is nothing exceptional, neither as a structure nor for the furnishings; one of the many dwellings today, perhaps, considered poor but which, in the Padula of the second half of the nineteenth century and until a few decades ago, still had its sober dignity.
Obviously it contains many original furnishings, furnishings and personal accessories and a vast exhibition (limited only by spaces) of all the films, documentaries and celebrations that even in life but especially in the last 100 years, have concerned the policeman Giuseppe "Joe" Petrosino.
Inevitable, since in the end he is a victim of the mafia "ante litteram", the comparison with sad news events more recent.
What is absolutely unique is the passion and friendliness with which the Owner, great-grandson of Joe Petrosino himself, accompanied us during the visit, with a wealth of details on the life and work of his ancestor, certainly better known in the USA (October 19 every year, in New York, the “Petrosino Day” is celebrated) than in Italy; even more relaxing was the long and cordial chat on the terrace of the house (with enchanting views of the valley and the Certosa), talking about the more and less, even with the interest of my teenage daughter, usually unwilling to live with this type; we had an hour and a half drive back to the structure where we stayed, otherwise we would have gone on for who knows how long.
What more can I say?
For us it was a beautiful experience that enriched us with knowledge about a piece of Italian history that we would hardly have known otherwise and it was an opportunity to meet a person "passionate" in carrying on the memory not only about his ancestor but especially about the often reviled life of Italians who emigrated to America.
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Written August 9, 2024
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Un grande personaggio!
A Padula le racconteranno tutto!
Written May 19, 2019
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