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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Caccamo
| native_name         = {{native name|scn|Càccamu}}
| official_name       = Comune di Caccamo
| image_skyline       = Caccamo in Palermo province 24.jpg
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| coordinates         = {{coord|37|56|N|13|40|E|region:IT_type:city(8528)|display=inline,title}}
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| region              = {{RegioneIT|sigla=SIC}}
| metropolitan_city   = [[Metropolitan City of Palermo|Palermo]] (PA)
| frazioni            = San Giovanni Li Greci, Sambuchi
| mayor_party         = 
| mayor               = Franco Fiore
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| area_total_km2      = 188.23
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total    = 8154
| population_as_of    = 4-30-2017
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| population_demonym  = Caccamese(i)
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| elevation_m         = 521
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| saint               = [[Saint Nicasius of Sicily]][http://home.att.net/~ilsiciliano/page35_st_nicasius.htm]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
| day                 = 
| postal_code         = 90012
| area_code           = 091
| website             = {{official website|http://www.comune.caccamo.pa.it/}}
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'''Caccamo''' ([[Sicilian language|Sicilian]]: '''''Càccamu''''') is a town and ''[[comune]]'' located on the [[Tyrrhenian Sea|Tyrrhenian]] coast of [[Sicily]] in the [[Metropolitan City of Palermo]].

==History==
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The official founding of Caccamo was not until 1093, when the [[Normans]] started to build the castle on a rocky spur overlooking a cliff, [[Castello di Caccamo]]. The castle itself is actually now being slowly converted into a museum. On the ground level of the castle is a restaurant "A Castellana". Submerged within the Rosamarina lake is a stone bridge built in 1307 on the road that once linked the town with [[Palermo]]. The city contains an attractive 11th-century [[cathedral]], which was remodeled in 1477 and 1614.  On the side of the cathedral are two churches.  The Chiesa dell'Anime del Purgatorio ''(Church of the Souls of Purgatory)'' features some [[stucco]] work in the eastern end and an 18th-century organ.  In the downstairs are [[catacombs]] where the skeletons of a number of townspeople lie in niches along the wall, a burial practice that lasted from the 17th century up to 1863.
[[File:Festa del Patrono (Caccamo 2007).jpg|thumb|150px|left|The Festa del Patrono, near the entrance to the Castle of Caccamo]]
Since the 1950s the town itself has lost almost half of its inhabitants to emigration.  Caccamo holds some great views of the surrounding countryside, including the Rosmarina artificial lake, which was created by a controversial dam built in 1993.

==Notable people from Caccamo==
* [[John Stanfa|Giovanni "John" Stanfa]], [[American mafia|Italian-American mobster]] (former [[Don (mafia)|boss]] of [[Philadelphia crime family]]) and uncle of [[Antonino Giuffrè]].
* [[Antonino Giuffrè|Antonino "Nino" Giuffrè]], [[Italian mob|Italian mobster]] ([[Mandamento (Sicilian Mafia)|high-ranking member]] of [[Corleonesi]]) and nephew of [[John Stanfa]].

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.netgalaxy.it/caccamopa.htm Caccamo page on netgalaxy.it] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617083840/http://www.netgalaxy.it/caccamopa.htm |date=2014-06-17 }} (in Italian)
* [http://sicilyweb.com/caccamo/ Caccamo page on sicilyweb.com] (in Italian)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040803082203/http://www.capital.net/~debhill/Caccamo.html Database of Caccamo families]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071025042757/http://www.comune.caccamo.pa.it/contenuti.aspx?id=1&tab=c  City of Caccamo web site Reference]
* [http://www.seepalermo.com/caccamo.htm Caccamo on See Palermo]
* [http://www.caccamo.sicilia.it Sito Fotografico Caccamo]
* [http://www.wondersofsicily.com/caccamo.htm Photos of Caccamo]


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[[Category:Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Palermo]]
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