(ANSA) - Naples, June 3 - Tourists to the southern Italian islands of Salina off Sicily and Procida in the Campania region will soon be able to visit the locations immortalised by the award-winning 1994 film Il postino (The Postman) starring the charismatic late Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi and directed by Michael Radford thanks to a special application for tablet and smartphone. The device will be presented on July 1 during the XII International Conference on Cinetourism to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Troisi's premature death on June 4, 1994, the day after completing filming for Il Postino, aged 41.

"It is a homage to an extraordinary personality of Italian cinema who with this film promoted locations in southern Italy that have become destinations for cinetourists from all over the world," Michelangelo Messina, director of Ischia Film Festival, said. The initiative is part of the film festival's project Cinema and Territory that has already led to the creation of an app on cinema locations in Campania. Troisi had already earned Italian acclaim for several successful films including Ricomincio da tre (1981), Scusate il ritardo (1983) and non ci resta che piangere (1985) in which he co-starred with Roberto Benigni, before gaining posthumous international regognition for his role in Il Postino as Mario Ruoppolo, a local fisherman who acts as postman to the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (played by Philippe Noiret) and learns to love poetry as a result. The film is set largely in the harbour on Procida and in a small property overlooking the black sand beach of Rinella on Salina in Sicily's Aeolian islands, itself a prominent feature of the movie.