🔔 The Italian Almanac

April 17

Stories and curiosities for April 17, from the Italy of a thousand bell towers.

No story for this day yet: here are the towns celebrating and the village of the day.

🎉 Celebrations today in…

Procession 📍 Marsala

Holy Thursday Sacra Rappresentazione

📅 Every year on Maundy Thursday

Nine costumed groups act out Christ's Passion through Marsala's old town on Holy Thursday — a living procession run by the Sant'Anna confraternity since the seventeenth century.

Food festival 📍 Gangi

Sagra del Cinghiale Madonita (Wild Boar Festival)

📅 Every year, on a weekend in April, at the Foro Boario

For three days in April, Gangi's Foro Boario pairs a farming and livestock fair with a festival built around Madonie wild boar: tastings with live music, cattle contests and cheese-making demos.