Palazzolo Living Nativity
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Palazzolo Living Nativity

26 Dec 2025 — 06 Jan 2026
Belpasso — Catania (287)

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Edition 2025 — Palazzolo Living Nativity

For Christmas 2025, the Palazzolo district in Belpasso once again hosted its living nativity scene, organized by the Corpus Domini Parish volunteers. Across the 4,000 square meters of the nature-filled trail, over a hundred actors in period costumes recreated workshops and ancient trades, accompanied by tastings of local products and a Christmas market, culminating in the Three Wise Men procession on Epiphany.

The 2025 Edition

The 2025 Christmas edition of the Palazzolo Living Nativity confirmed the traditional format of the Belpasso event. In the Palazzolo district, next to the Corpus Domini church, the village came to life with over one hundred actors engaged in artisan workshops and ancient trades.

Visitors walked the path among blacksmiths, bakers, and spinners, savoring traditional chickpeas, ricotta, bread, focaccia, dried fruit, and wine, and visiting the Christmas market with crafts, preserves, and olive oil produced by the parish. On Epiphany, the grand procession of the Three Wise Men, featuring flag-wavers and bagpipers, brought the event to a festive close, confirming it as one of the most anticipated Christmas appointments on the slopes of Mount Etna.

Programme

Open during the Christmas period (traditionally December 26th and days surrounding Epiphany, typical hours 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM; January 6th from the afternoon).

  • Village trail — over 100 actors, artisan workshops, and ancient trades leading to the Nativity stable
  • Tastings — chickpeas, jams, ricotta, bread, focaccia, dried fruit, and wine
  • Christmas market — handmade crafts, Sicilian preserves, and parish-produced oil
  • January 6th — Epiphany — Procession of the Three Wise Men with flag-wavers and bagpipers

Highlights

The Epiphany procession of the Three Wise Men with flag-wavers and bagpipers; the trail featuring over a hundred actors immersed in nature.

Prices

Free admission.
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Contrada Palazzolo (Chiesa Corpus Domini)

Palazzolo Living Nativity in brief

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Edition 2025 Dec 2025

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