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The Feast of Santa Rosalia, called u fistinu, lasts for three or four days and ends on July 15 with the solemn procession of the remains of the saint; on the evening of July 14, the traditional wagon goes down the Cassaro and is placed in the Marina outside Porta Felice. AC, 556.
the feasts of Santa Rosalia
The regiment was created during the War of the Spanish Succession; in June 1718 it took part in the siege and capture of Palermo.
Numancia Dragoons
calabresella
The “little Calabrian game”, an Italian card game for three players; a variation of tressette.
Or Our Lady of the Pillar. According to traditional belief, Mary, while living in Jerusalem, appeared with the child Jesus standing on a Pillar appeared to the Apostle James while he was preaching in what is now Spain. She asked him to build a church on the site, promising that “it will stand from that moment until the end of time in order that God may work miracles and wonders through my intercession for all those who place themselves under my patronaged.
