NEW YEAR'S DAY IN CATANIA
Come and celebrate the New year's day in our beautiful city! Every year Catania organizes a great party right in the Cathedral Square, close to our home, with every kind of entertainment, open-doors disco, theatrical representations and fireworks. With the New year's sunset you can also admire then the enchanting landscape from the highest European volcano: the Etna. A generous, majestic volcano. With its threatening huge frame, it is both beloved and mistrusted.

ST. AGATA'S PARTY
The party is the most important religious event for the inhabitans of Catania who take part to it with a great religious devotion, following the procession of the "Vara" (which contains the body of the Saint), through various routes along the main streets of the city from the third to the fifth of February. The program of the celebrations develops anyway in the first two weeks of the month. The religious aspect of the party combines with the edonistic one: the procession

EASTER IN SICILY
The province of Catania during the Holy Week and at Easter organizes a series of interesting events from a cultural and folkloristic point of view. In Adrano, during the "Holy Saturday", you can assist to the theatrical representation "La Diavolata", a religious drama, dating back to the 1728. Caltagirone too, famous for the handcraft ceramics, remembers the holy week with religious processions and typical exhibitions. Between April and May in Caltagirone you can assist to the International Exhibition of handcraft whistles, with more than 300 examples coming from all over the world and the "Blooming ladder", monumental ladder in S. Maria del Monte During the Angel's Monday, Palagonia on the other hand, organizes a procession for St. Febronia with the famous "spaccata della pigna", a popular manifestation coming from the peasants' tradition.

CARNIVAL IN ACIREALE
At just 15 Km north from Catania, Acireale, one of the "jewels"of Sicilian Barocco, oganizes every year the greatest Carnival in Sicily. With the marvellous allegorical floats , music in the streets and squares, disguised people who dance joyful until late night. This lovely little town , rich of art and history will remain for a long time in your heart.

SPRING AND SUMMER IN SICILY
Catania and the little towns of its province celebrate the most beautiful seasons of the year with a great number of meetings and events. Trecastagni, the 10th of May celebrates the Patron St. Alfio with the evocative procession of the penitents who arrive bare-foot, walking for kilometres to St. Alfio's church to show their devotion. In the background of the procession you can find a little market with stalls full of fresh garlic and a band playing classical music in the square. In Macchia di Giarre between the 22th and 25th of June there is the 24th festival of the cherries with a parade of folkloristic groups and Sicilian handcart. The 24th of June , during St. John's feast, Acitrezza, a lovely sea-town, famous for Verga's "Malavoglia", organizes a typical representation " u pisci a mari" (the fish in the water). It consists in the hunting of a man disguised as a fish who escapes the capture between the rocks of the Ciclopi. For St. Peter's feast, the 29th of June , Riposto organizes a procession of the Saint's statue on a fishing boat, sailing to Torre Archirafi's mole, escorted by other boats. Catania, from June to September organizes every evening in the fair centre "Le Ciminiere" a series of musical, theatrical and dancing manifestations.