Legend says the marquis Trigona sold wheat to a friar from Naso, who left a ring as a pledge and never came back to pay. He went looking for him and recognised him in a painting, in a convent: it was Saint Conus, dead five hundred years earlier. He gave the saint's name to the town he founded.
The town dates from 1785: Ottavio Trigona Bellotti had a church and sixty houses built at his own expense, and called people from all over Sicily with the promise of a house and a piece of land — a fair few who had scores open with the courts answered too. San Cono stands at 525 metres in the Erei, and today lives on prickly pears. There are 2,790 residents.
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📅 Every year, on the second and third Sunday of May, with a night-time procession until the midnight fireworks
San Cono celebrates its patron saint on the second and third Sunday of May: the procession continues throughout the night, collecting offerings from the faithful to the cry of «Viva Diu e Santu Conu», interrupted only for prayers and songs and, at midnight, for fireworks.
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Outside San Cono, but an easy day trip away.
