Events & festivals · Lascari

Patron saint festival In 261 days

The Holy Crucifix, patron of a town named after the emperors of Byzantium

📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of July

Lascari celebrates the Holy Crucifix on the first Sunday of July, with a fine wooden sculpture of Christ carved in cypress; the town takes its name from Baron Gaetano Ventimiglia, who claimed descent from the Lascaris, emperors of Constantinople.