Tourism in Racalmuto

Rushing to the Church

The Festa della Madonna del Monte is carried out to Racalmuto from the friday to Sunday of the second week of July.

It goes back to year 1503 when prince Gioeni di Castronovo transported one sweetest statue of the Madonna to its country.

The difficulties of the travel pushed it to sostare to Racalmuto where it found the hospitality of the family Of the Carretto.

Costoro uselessly tried to convince the prince to yield the statue that ended however with remaining in country.

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The wagon that transported the simulacro, in fact, s' made muddy in the place where today the Santuario rises di Santa Maria of the Monte, event endured interpreted like a sign of the divine will affinch&eacuto; the statue remained to Racalmuto.

To this rifā legend the rappresentazione in dialetto, with which the festeggiamenti are opened, held in public square from personages in age custom.

The festivity is made up of two parts: the saturday evening that is carries out the processione of cilii (waxes), where around to beautifulst cilio s' it engages risen of fight supported from the borgesi young people fiancčes for contendersi the flag mails in top to the cero that " it gives " to the winner straight, than ne leaves an other in exchange, of sposarsi within the year.

Sunday instead the festeggiamenti catches up the apex of the spettacolarità. Reckless knights, urged from two wings of crowd, go up to load the perron that leads to the Sanctuary until to entrarvi within.....