Festivals in Sicilia

Every year, Buscemi—a small village in the Iblei Mountains near Syracuse known as an 'open-air museum' of rural life—hosts the Homemade Brea...

Hop Hop Market is a traveling market fair dedicated to Sicilian crafts, vintage items, and handmade goods, organized in Palermo by the Artig...

The Horcynus Festival is a multidisciplinary summer event held every year between July and August at the Horcynus Orca Park in Capo Peloro,...

Every summer, Castel di Lucio, a small village in the western Nebrodi area of the province of Messina, transforms into the stage for "Horses...

The Hunter's Festival is a summer event that brings the small village of Comitini, in the province of Agrigento, to life with two days entir...

I Colori del Gusto is a premier food and wine festival that transforms the spectacular Piazza Duomo in Acireale, near Catania, into the beat...

I Pignatuna is the oldest and most evocative tradition of the Barrafranca Carnival: on the last Sunday of Carnival, an equestrian procession...

I Sapori del Borgo Festival is the food and wine event held in Custonaci, in the heart of western Sicily, in the province of Trapani. For th...

Every summer, the village of Ventimiglia di Sicilia, near Palermo, celebrates its culinary excellence with the I Sapori del Feudo di Calamig...

Iapri Fest is the Musical Balconies Festival held in Naso, in the Nebrodi area of the province of Messina. For three summer days, artists pe...

In Buscemi, a charming village in the Iblei Mountains near Syracuse, the iART — Immaterial Landscapes festival turns the entire medieval his...

iART Ustica is a multidisciplinary arts festival that brings the island of Ustica to life, located in the heart of the Tyrrhenian Sea near P...

Ibbisu Village Fest is the summer celebration of Gesso, a village perched in the Peloritani mountains about 16 km from the center of Messina...

Every summer, the village of Gesso—a hillside hamlet of Messina overlooking the Tyrrhenian side of the Peloritani mountains—comes alive with...

Every October, Ibla Buskers transforms the historic center of Ragusa into a vast open-air stage. For four days, the squares and narrow alley...

For nearly a month, from early December through Epiphany, the Baroque village of Ragusa Ibla transforms into a grand Christmas wonderland. B...

Every summer, Ragusa Ibla transforms into an open-air festival thanks to the Ibla Grand Prize, an international classical and jazz music com...

The Ibleo May of Books is the local chapter of the major national reading promotion campaign organized by the Centre for Books and Reading,...