A Sicilian castle that featured in The Godfather Part III film has hit the market – and it teems with neo-gothic charm and cathedral-like spaces.

Francis Ford Coppola used the 19th-century Italian mansion as a film location for his 1990 film in which a powerful politician is shot by a killer, sent by Michael Corleone, right on its porch. Italian cinephiles might also know it from Mauro Bolognini’s 1969 film That Splendid November.

The 43,000-sq-ft estate was built in opulent, eclectic style in the coastal city of Acireale, outside Catania, for the noble Pennisi family of Floristella, who rotated its façade at a peculiar angle (50 degrees clockwise) so that its beauty could be admired.

It boasts magnificent stone interiors, its own chapel with frescos by Giuseppe Sciuti, and 22 bedrooms.

Piazza Agostino Pennisi has two towers with Moorish-style battlements and a three-arched portico opening onto a monumental marble staircase, which forks into two at the sides and leads up to the first floor and a portrait of Baron Pennisi. Other highlights include a wooden coffered ceiling, tall ogival windows, an imposing sitting room fireplace, and the chapel’s starry night sky ceiling featuring saints.

The Sicilian property is for sale for €6 million via Italy Sotheby’s International Realty. Tour its opulently appointed spaces in the gallery above.

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