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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Menfi
| official_name       = Comune di Menfi
| native_name         = 
| image_skyline       = Sole menfi.jpg
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| image_caption       = The entrance gate to Menfi
| image_shield        = Menfi-Stemma.png
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| coordinates         = {{coord|37|36|N|12|58|E|type:city(12,934)_region:IT|display=inline}}
| coordinates_footnotes = 
| region              = [[Sicily]]
| province            = [[Province of Agrigento|Agrigento]] (AG)
| frazioni            = Porto Palo, Lido Fiori, Capparrina, Bertolino di Mare
| mayor_party         = 
| mayor               = Vito Antonio Clemente
| area_footnotes      = 
| area_total_km2      = 113.58
| population_footnotes = <ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|Istat]].</ref>
| population_total    = 11681
| population_as_of    = 31 August 2022
| pop_density_footnotes = 
| population_demonym  = Menfitani
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m         = 109
| twin1               = 
| twin1_country       = 
| saint               = St. Anthony
| day                 = 13 June
| postal_code         = 92013
| area_code           = 0925
| website             = {{official website|http://www.comune.menfi.ag.it/}}
| footnotes           = 
}}
'''Menfi''' is a ''[[comune]]'' (municipality) in the [[Province of Agrigento]] in the [[Italy|Italian]] region [[Sicily]], located about {{convert|70|km|mi}} southwest of [[Palermo]] and about {{convert|60|km|mi}} northwest of [[Agrigento]].

The town lies some {{convert|3|km|mi|0}} from the south coast of Sicily, between the rivers [[Belice]] and [[Carboj]]. In 1910, a full third of the population of the town of Menfi had emigrated to the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/offers.html?url=%2Fchicagotribune%2Faccess%2F387332051.html%3FFMT%3DAI%26FMTS%3DABS%3AAI%26type%3Dhistoric%26date%3DMay%2B05%252C%2B1910%26author%3D%26pub%3DChicago%2BTribune%26desc%3DThe%2BWide%252C%2BWide%2BWorld |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-07-07 |archive-date=2016-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002172128/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/offers.html?url=%2Fchicagotribune%2Faccess%2F387332051.html%3FFMT%3DAI%26FMTS%3DABS%3AAI%26type%3Dhistoric%26date%3DMay%2B05%252C%2B1910%26author%3D%26pub%3DChicago%2BTribune%26desc%3DThe%2BWide%252C%2BWide%2BWorld |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other major recipients were [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], and [[Venezuela]].

==Main sights==
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*A tower (''Torre Federiciana''), which is the remains of a medieval castle built by [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II of Hohenstaufen]] in 1238, perhaps over an Arab fortification.
*''Chiesa Madre'' ("Mother Church"), built in the 18th century but destroyed by an earthquake in 1968. It was later rebuilt.
*Church of St. Joseph (1715).

The remains of an [[Iron Age]] prehistoric settlement were found in the 1980s outside of the town.

==Twin towns==
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Canelli]], Italy, since 1997
*{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Chivilcoy]], Argentina, since 1999
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Ettlingen]], Germany, since 2004

== Notable People ==
[[Joe Masseria]], former [[Mafia boss|Boss]] of the [[Genovese crime family|Genovese Crime Family]] 

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130526131239/http://scoprimenfi.com ScopriMenfi, Menfi's Tourism web site]}}
* [http://www.comune.menfi.ag.it/ Official website]
* {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Menfi|short=x}}

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[[Category:Cities and towns in Sicily]]


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