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Keen-eyed viewers will notice that this impressionistic approach extends at times, to swapping locations for the same fictional setting – for example, the police station that the young Montalbano visits in the first episode with Mary, his pre-Livia girlfriend is, at least externally, not the one that fans of the two Inspector Montalbano series will be familiar with. Mostly, its exteriors and interiors were shot on location in Ragusa and Scicli – two of the brace of honey-coloured sandstone towns that were reconstructed by the island’s Spanish overlords after a 1693 earthquake – and on the coast immediately to the south, between Scoglitti and Pozzallo.
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In other words, from halfway through the first episode of the prequel season, we’re immersed in the warm southern Sicilian locations that will already be familiar to viewers of the two Inspector Montalbano series.įollowing in the best TV tradition, the Vigata we see on screen is a composite rather than a single place. It’s not long, though, before a string-pulling girlfriend helps to secure him the Vigata job, bringing Montalbano back to his hometown, to the seafood dishes he’s been dreaming of, and to a long-running conflict with his wine-producing father. Set in the early Nineties, Young Montalbano’s story begins in the remote mountains of central Sicily, where the lad from the coast feels like a fish out of water. It was hardly surprising that the producers should change location. However, although it has a few handsome corners in the old town and one impressive natural feature, the Scala dei Turchi, a seaside marl formation scraped clean by wave and wind that seems a vast work of land art, Porto Empedocle is essentially a working town, dominated by its ferry port (hopping off point for the islands of Linosa and Lampedusa) and cement works.
So proud is the town of the connection that in 2003, it officially changed its name to Porto Empedocle Vigata. The 88-year-old writer makes no secret of the fact that the fictional “Vigata” where Montalbano is based is his home town of Porto Empedocle, near Agrigento.
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