🔊 Listen The Living Nativity Scene Reenactment of Montallegro is one of the most suggestive in the whole of Sicily, an event so awaited not only by the town residents, but also by the visitors that, every year, are coming in growing numbers t…

🔊 Listen Milena’s citizens boast to be most devoted followers in all of Sicily of San Giuseppe, the patron saint of the town. On 19 March, the feast of San Giuseppe, Milena holds the traditional event of the “tavulata di li vecchiariddi”, nam…

🔊 Listen The Sagra of the ricotta cheese and of the typical products is held in Marianopoli every year during the Christmas period, since its first edition in 1993. It is a special chance to taste the typical local products surrounded by a un…

🔊 Listen Every year, during the Easter period, Favara holds a feast dedicated to the typical lamb-shaped almond paste sweet stuffed with pistachio. This pasta reale sweet is produced every month of the year in different shapes, but with the s…

🔊 Listen Deeply rooted in the hearts of the citizens, the tradition of Delia’s Holy Week rites seems to escape the implacable, corrosive power of time that constantly drags into oblivion our precious folklore heritage. In Delia, the extreme e…

🔊 Listen The Feast of the SS. Crocifisso, also called the feast of “lu tri di maiu”  is the most traditional and ancient feast in town. On 3 May of every year, the Simulacrum is paraded in a procession along the old town streets, with sharp m…

🔊 Listen Even in Siculiana it is repeated every year the traditional celebration in honor of St. Joseph. The celebrations begin nine days before the feast of the saint with the novenas that feature songs sung in Sicilian dialect. On Sunday mo…

🔊 Listen The holy week is one of the most ancient and suggestive traditions of Cattolica Eraclea. Holy Friday is the day when the most fascinating ceremony of the entire week takes place: in the morning, at 12.00 am, the procession leaves the…

🔊 Listen For over thirty years, every year, the Sagra del Pomodoro “siccagnu” has been organised on the first or second Sunday of August, on the occasion of the feast of the patron San Giuseppe. A tomato that grows without water, the “siccagn…

🔊 Listen On the fourth Sunday of May, Casteltermini hosts one of the most original folklore events of the entire island, the “Festa di Santa Croce”, also known as “Sagra del Tataratà”. Its history is strictly intertwined with the finding of t…

🔊 Listen The origins of this performance date back to 1890, when the Flight to Egypt of the Holy Family was re-enacted. An event of the Feast of San Giuseppe, on 19 March and on the second Sunday of August, Lu Tuppi Tuppi – the onomatopoeic t…

🔊 Listen The Feast is held on the third Sunday of May to celebrate San Giuseppe Artigiano. Before the Church of San Giuseppe, a table is laid on a stage, with living characters, called the “tavulata di San Giuse’”: the table sits the Virgin,…

🔊 Listen During the feast of San Calogero in Campofranco, the simulacrum of the Patron Saint, portrayed with a white vest and a black cloak while holding a silver rod, is carried by the worshippers on their shoulders around town, in memory of…

🔊 Listen On the second Sunday of September, Riesi celebrates its Patron, the SS Madonna della Catena. On the Saturday night before the feast, the pilgrims from the nearby villages get ready to meet the Patron by walking barefoot the road to R…

🔊 Listen A special intensity characterizes Caltanissetta’s Holy Week, enlivened by involving religious processions that perpetuate centuries-old traditions. The whole starts in the afternoon of Palm Sunday, with the procession of Jesus that c…

🔊 Listen The Ravanusa citizens’ devotion for the Virgin has ancient origins. In fact, the story goes that on Monte Saraceno there was a Muslim fortress hard to conquer, and that Count Roger had put a siege on it, but his army was thirsty for…

🔊 Listen The Madonna del Monte is the Queen and Co-patron of Racalmuto, and on the second Sunday of July of every year, she is enthusiastically celebrated by the town. The feast begins on the previous Friday, with the historical re-enactment…

🔊 Listen The Sagra del Mandorlo  is the most important folk festival of Agrigento. A festival that, according to the tradition, is held every year in early February and lasts a week. The purpose is to celebrate the coming of spring with the b…

🔊 Listen The patron saint of Mussomeli is the Madonna dei SS. Miracoli, to whom is dedicated, on 8 September of every year, the patronal feast, which attracts a great number of followers and the curious from Italy and from abroad. On the occa…

🔊 Listen In Montedoro, it is customary to organise, on 13 December, on the occasion of the feast of Santa Lucia, the traditional “Sagra della cuccia”. Of remote origins, the cuccia is a dish mainly made of wheat and cooked wine: according to…