Mafia shadow hangs over Corleone

Bernardo Provenzano
Bernardo Provenzano's reign is over, but who waits in the wings?
On a hillside, just a few kilometres from the Mafia heartland of Corleone, four men are hoeing soil around young vines.

The wind whistles around them on a sharp spring day as they push and pull great clods of earth away from the green plants.

They work for a co-operative called Libera Terra - Free Land.

The land it uses has been given to it by the Sicilian authorities - it is land confiscated from the Mafia.

Because one of the things the co-operative makes is pasta, its motto is: "Fighting the Mafia with macaroni". It's not a great joke, but it raises a smile.

For those who detest the Mafia and all its works in Sicily there has been one very good reason to smile this week; the capture, after an astonishing 43 years on the run, of Bernardo Provenzano.