Agrigento.

At Sant' Angelo Muxaro, at the beginning of July, there is the feast of honey. In the stalls, set up for two days in the main square, you can taste local food products among which the traditional honey cakes. Folk groups will perform in the evening.

While in the other towns of the province, San Calogero patron of the summer harvest, is celebrated in June, in Agrigento his feast is on the first and second Sunday of July. At his death, Calogero, a famous healer, was buried on mount Kronio. The statue, dating back to the second half of the 16th century, represents the Saint holding a book in his right hand and with a small case hanging from his arm. In it, according to the legend, the instruments with which he carried out his profession as healer. The procession in the town streets starts at noon on the 4th of July. At 8.30pm the statue is set on the triumphal cart and at 10.00pm there are fireworks at Villa Sole. Saturday 10 at ten o'clockl there will be the "tammuriata" (drum-beating) and at 8.00pm the concert of polyphonic songs with the choir of the Sistine chapel. On the 11th at 9.30am, feast of the wheat with offering procession of bread, crafts products and Sicilian carts and the blessing of the Archbishop, at 6.00pm a second procession along a shorter rout.

Racalmuto celebrates its patron, Maria SS. Del Monte on the second Sunday of the month. The story tells that, in 1503, the Prince of Castronovo, Eugenio Gioieni, in Africa at the time, found a marble statue of the Madonna in the cave where he had took refuge during a storm and decided to take it with him. On his way back he stopped overnight in Racalmuto in the local landlord's home and rejected the request of his host to keep the statue in his territory. The following morning the prince was to continue in journey, but the cart that transported the small statue got stuck in the mud and could not be moved. People thought that the Madonna had thus expressed her wish to remain there. Today, in the place where the cart got stuck, there is a sanctuary. One of the highlights of the feast is on Friday with the representation, in piazza Crispi, of the arrival of Madonna in the town. On Saturday there's the "ciliu", the traditional candle procession; Sunday is dedicated to the "prumissioni" - the offering of wheat sacks by the worshipers.

San Giovanni Gemini and Porto Empedocle both celebrate the Madonna del Carmelo. The former from the 16th to the 18th. The typical parade on horseback, that recalls a historical event, will take place on the 18th. In July 1587, Ercole Branciforti, Lord of Cammarata, gave civil and administrative autonomy to the inhabitants of the Piano of San Giovanni, from that moment the village began to expand. To thanks the inhabitants created the tradition of mounting, with a long parade on horseback, to the residence of the lords of Cammarata. The "cavalcata", as it was called, started in the afternoon from the vassal's house, the lord of the village stayed at the back of the procession with his family members, escorted by pages and guards and, in the middle, a servant carried the family banner. This tradition lasted for a long time; in 1880 the town began to celebrate the Madonna and the celebrations. The figure of the village lord was substituted by that of the "Paliante" a person who had received a grace and therefore organized the feast. The banner was substituted by the "Palio" a decorated canopy with the image of Madonna.

The feast in honour of Madonna is the oldest in the town of Porto Empedocle; it is traditionally organized by the fishermen who, in the past, to avoid to going to Agrigento and celebrate their patron, decided to build a church entitled to her. Its construction lasted fourteen years. Despite the fact that the church no longer exists, the fishermen still continue to organize the feast. The suggestive procession of the simulacrum of the Madonna with Child and San Simeone, begins on Saturday through the streets of the town to end at the sea.

The devotion of the town of Caltabellotta for the Madonna dei Miracoli dates back to 1601 when she was proclaimed Patron of the town for having saved its inhabitants from cholera. The feast is on the 25th although there are other three dates in the year when she is celebrated. The tradition is to offer gold to Madonna. Her treasure should have been much bigger if in 1935 Mussolini's government had not confiscated the gold to face the war expenses. On Saturday morning there's the suggestive procession of the donated gold that reaches the church of Sant'Agostino where there are the statues of Madonna and the Crucified to which it is offered. Inside the church there is the ceremony of the "dressing" of the statue.; the remaining gold is placed in the "vara" (processional array) of the Holy Crucified. All is ready for the Sunday afternoon procession, the fireworks are shot nearly at dawn.

On the same day Cominiti celebrates its Patron San Giacomo Maggiore (he is said to be the patron of foreigners) at the same time as Caltagirone; it was, as a matter of fact, the same family that brought about the cult for the saint in the town. Novenas with different themes are recited on the evenings before the feast. The procession leaves in the afternoon from the church of the Immacolata.