The patron of Sciara is the Holy Crucifix, celebrated on the first Sunday of August. The town's co-patron is the Immaculate Conception, marked on 8 December with an old historic procession.
The town was founded by Filippo Notarbartolo Cipolla on the territory of the eponymous fief, which had belonged to Baroness Eleonora Cipolla, in turn the daughter of Filippo Cipolla, named as the first baron of Sciara.