Events
During the year, the municipality organizes major cultural events:
- Focara of the Epiphany: January 6 in the square outside the Basilica, organized live concerts.
- Farfugghji Carnival: parade of floats leaves from the sports field and after covering the main streets to reach Piazza Leonardo Leo. Farfugghji is an eccentric and flirty name, untranslatable and derives from a dialectic expression.
- Holy Week: the rites are celebrated at the Basilica of Santa Maria della Vittoria.
- Friday: "desolation", at the end of the procession is the rite of burial.
- Saturday: Easter Vigil waiting for the parade of beautiful statues of many saints, which are taken from different churches in the city and come to the basilica.
- Easter: Procession of Christ and the resurrected saints.
- Patronal festival: June 15, the Feast of San Vito Martire, solemn procession with the silver statue of the saint.
- Il palio (prize): the beginning of the summer kicks off the competition between teams of different neighborhoods with challenge matches of soccer, volleyball, tug of war and also a road race.
- The Salento Finibus Terrae festival: Film festival of short films organized during the summer.
- Feast of Assumption: tasting and exhibition of local products and concert and dancing in the square with Pinches
- The Baroque Festival concerts and events related to Baroque music in honor of the composer Leonardo Leo with the objective of recovering the memory of the master composer.
- Sanvitesi Summer: organized by the city with cultural associations and individuals, provides for numerous concerts, exhibitions, screenings of films, musical performances, shows, cabaret, and theater.
- The "St. Vitus Dance" musical event traces the tradition of San Vito Tarantella.
- Christmas: a live nativity scene in the caves of San Biagio staged in the setting of the Byzantine sanctuary.
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