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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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)