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After the Tour of Kites around Sicily, comes alive the fourth edition of the International Kite Festival "Emotion nose up!", Scheduled for 23 to 27 May 2012 in the beach of San Vito lo Capo. The Festival starts tomorrow, Wednesday, May 23 at 11.30 with the "Flag Ceremony". Then all the kites in flight, from the giants and the acrobatic monofilament. But on May 23 coincides with the commemoration of the Capaci massacre that killed Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and three police escorts, Vito Schifani, Dicillo Rocco, Antonio Montinaro. And in memory of that terrible day, from 9 to 14, with Able, Square Matrix in collaboration with the Association of Volunteers "Mosaicando", a delegation of kites will fly a large kite delta white. Moreover, in San Vito lo Capo, at 17:58, at the massacre of 23 May 1992, will be observed a moment of silence. It will fly in the sky of San Vito lo Capo and white Delta will fly a kite up to 20 butterflies to commemorate the 20 years since the massacre. Another 150 butterflies invade the sky in memory of all victims of the Mafia. They will recite phrases of Giovanni Falcone. The day will end at 21.30, Sanctuary Square, San Vito lo Capo, with the music of Duin, a band songwriter folk of Palermo.