There are many traditional feasts and festivals which take place in this area, but the most intensely celebrated ones, apart from the feasts in honour of patron saints, are Easter, Christmas and the Feast of Saint Joseph.
For Easter, the most interesting and celebrated events take place at Comiso, with the "La pace" [Peace] where carriage-borne simulacrum of the Risen Christ and the Virgin greet each other throughout the day.
The same feast at Modica is called "Vasa Vasa" [Kiss Kiss] where the Madonna with a black mourning mantle travels through the town in search of her son and when she sees him, looses the mourning mantle and goes to meet the resurrected son, bowing and kissing him.
In Scicli the celebration is called "Uomo vivo", (the Living Man) where, after the religious celebration with the monstrance and banners, jubilant youths carry the statue of the resurrected Christ on their shoulders through the streets, lowering or raising it as the mood takes them.
Un angolo di Sicilia
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