The Godfather's Corleone was never Corleone: it was Savoca
The scenes of The Godfather set in Corleone were not shot there: Coppola filmed them on the other side of Sicily, between the provinces of Messina and Catania, in Savoca, Forza d'Agrò, Motta Camastra and Fiumefreddo. It is in Savoca, on the ground floor of the eighteenth-century Palazzo Trimarchi, that Michael Corleone talks with signor Vitelli, Apollonia's father. That little bar still exists, everyone still calls it Bar Vitelli, and today it welcomes visitors onto the set of a legend.