Sicily, Season by Season

The Event Calendar

An insider's guide to what's actually happening in Sicily — festivals, sagre, cultural events, and seasonal celebrations that are nearly impossible to find unless you live here.

What This Is

The Events You'll Never Find on Google

Every year, Sicily runs on a calendar that most visitors never see. The pistachio festival in Bronte. The almond blossom procession in Agrigento. The village sagra in a town of eight hundred people where they've been making the same dish for four generations and the date changes every year and there's no English-language website telling you when it is. The ceramic festival in Santo Stefano di Camastra. The ancient harvest rites that happen in the interior in October, where the same families have been doing the same thing since before Sicily was a tourist destination.

I live here. I know when these things are happening because I'm embedded in the communities where they happen. That knowledge — updated season by season, curated for the people who actually want it — is what this calendar is.

It's not a list of events you could find on TripAdvisor. It's the other list. The one that takes years of showing up to build.

Traditional Sicilian festival

Who This Is For

Travel Professionals
& Independent Travelers

If you're a travel agent or tour operator building Sicily programs, this is the intel that sets your itineraries apart. Knowing that your clients' trip overlaps with the Infiorata di Noto — or that they're missing the Cous Cous Fest in San Vito Lo Capo by three days — is the difference between a good itinerary and an unforgettable one.

If you're an independent traveler planning your own trip, this is how you time it right. Not just the big-name events — the real ones. The ones the locals go to. The ones where you're the only American in the room.

A Sample of What's Inside

A Taste of the Calendar

This is the kind of thing I track, season by season. The full calendar — with dates, locations, context, and my notes on each — is available to members.

February
Sagra del Mandorlo in Fiore — Agrigento

One of Sicily's oldest folk festivals, held among the almond trees near the Valley of the Temples. International folk groups, processions, and the almond blossom at its peak. Dates shift each year — I track them.

Annual
May
Infiorata di Noto

The streets of Noto's Via Corrado Nicolaci are covered in elaborate floral designs made entirely from flower petals, an event that lasts a single weekend. The preparations take months. The result lasts less than 48 hours.

Annual
September
Cous Cous Fest — San Vito Lo Capo

An international couscous competition on the beach in one of Sicily's most beautiful towns. A week of tastings, music, and the convergence of North African and Sicilian culinary heritage. Highly attended — worth timing a trip around.

Annual
October
Sagra del Pistacchio — Bronte

The pistachio festival in Bronte, home of the world's finest pistachios. Every vendor, every dish, every product — all pistachio. The town fills up fast. Dates, logistics, and what to actually eat: members only.

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Hundreds of authentic local and insider events across 51 cities and 7 regions — updated weekly. This is your access to the real Sicily: the festivals the locals go to, the sagre that don't have websites, the seasonal celebrations that have been happening for generations before anyone thought to photograph them.

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Whether you're planning your own trip to Sicily or building programs for clients, the calendar gives you the insider intelligence that turns a good trip into an unforgettable one.

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Stop missing the moments that make Sicily unforgettable. The calendar tells you exactly what's happening — the almond blossom festival, the village sagra no one's written about in English, the harvest celebration that's been running for four generations. Search by region, season, and what you care about. Show up at the right time, in the right place.

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Built for travel agents and tour operators who want to sell Sicily at a level their competitors can't reach. The Pro tier adds trend intelligence and client persona matching — so you know not just what's happening, but which events align with which traveller profiles. The difference between a well-organized trip and one your clients talk about for years.

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Questions? josephine.ingoglia@fora.travel

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Hundreds of events. 7 regions. Updated weekly. Built by someone who actually lives here — and goes to these things.

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