Release today what you don’t want to bring into the new year! There isn’t a long history of celebrating New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day in Sicily. Only over the past century has it become a milestone holiday. Therefore, modern Sicilians celebrate New Year’s Italian-style–eating sausage (cotechino), grapes, and lentils. (Lentils, with their coin-shape,…
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Burn the Old
Annually on the night of March 18, it is customary for Sicilians to light purifying bonfires. Those faithful to Saint Joseph, or San Giuseppe, burn old and broken possessions they don’t want to carry into the new agricultural year that begins on March 19 with la Festa di San Giuseppe. Read more about la Festa…