On March 11, 1607, King Philip III of Spain formally chartered the township of Vita, established by Calatafimi nobleman Vito Sicomo. Covering just 8.88 square kilometres, it remains the smallest municipality by area in the province of Trapani, positioned at an altitude second only to Erice.
Vita supported Garibaldi’s Expedition of the Thousand in 1860, later experiencing mass emigration to Toronto in the twentieth century. Following severe destruction during the 1968 Belice earthquake, the town was rebuilt adjacent to its historic footprint, where 2,139 residents live today.
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📅 Every year, on 15 June; on 19 March bread and laurel altars for Saint Joseph, and in early August the Folklore Festival
Vita celebrates Saint Vitus on 15 June; on 19 March, in the Church of the Purgatorio, devotional altars to Saint Joseph are set up with bread and laurel, while the first week of August has hosted, since 1996, the Città di Vita International Folklore Festival.
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo cheese inside a golden crust. Round and feminine in Palermo, pointed and called arancino in Catania: the quarrel is serious.
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Outside Vita, but an easy day trip away.
