In 168 days Patron saint festival
3 April 2027
Saturday 3 April
Canicattì · Agrigento · Sicily
On 3 April Canicattì celebrates Saint Pancras in the mother church built in 1760 thanks to donations from the Adamo barons, which keeps a Byzantine statue of the Madonna delle Grazie.
The patron of Canicattì is Saint Pancras, celebrated on 3 April.
His mother church was built in 1760 thanks to donations from the Adamo barons and the townspeople. It keeps a canvas by the painter Pietro D'Asaro, known as the One-eyed, showing the Holy Family with Saint Anne, Saint Joachim and a donor with a basket of fruit; the Byzantine marble statue of the Madonna delle Grazie; a reliquary and a wooden choir, both 18th-century, the latter in Louis XVI style.
Places to see before or after the feast. All 1 places in Canicattì →
Ernesto Basile's Liberty theatre in Canicattì, reopened in 2009: in 1927 Pirandello's company performed here.
Teatro Sociale
Arancina · Pasta alla Norma
19 places to stay · top rated: B&B La Maison 10.0 · Beatus Suites And Rooms B&B 9.6
Next up: Saint Pancras and the Byzantine Madonna delle Grazie, Saturday 3 April
Nearest airport: Catania Fontanarossa, 108 km away
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