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Museum · Padula (SA)

Joe Petrosino House Museum

  • Visit: about 1 h 30 min
  • 566 m
Joe Petrosino House Museum
Photo: Turismo Campano · Illustrazione

The birthplace of Joe Petrosino in Padula, the Italian-American policeman who took on the Mafia in New York.

Joe Petrosino was born in Padula in 1860 and emigrated to the United States as a boy, where he became one of New York's best-known policemen. He was killed in Palermo in 1909 while investigating the Mafia.His birthplace has become a museum telling the story of his life and of emigration from the Vallo di Diano.

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