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Ficuzza celebrates with great devotion Our Lady of Grace on the 1st Sunday of the July. It is believed that during the plague at the end of the last century nobody died thanks to the Virgin. The village celebrates Her through a solemn function. The Madonna is also celebrated at Isola delle Femmine and Alia.

At San Mauro Castelverde there are four-day celebration in honour of the patron S. Mauro. Usually the festivity takes place on the first Tuesday of the month. According to a legend the town's first patron was S. Giorgio, of Norman origins like the town. The statue of the saint is carried on the shoulders of 30 people each day of the feast.

Two different events take place to celebrate the "santuzza", patroness of Palermo, S. Rosalia. The first celebration is in July, when festivities go on from the 10th to the 15th. There are several performances: folklore, entertainment, the parade of carts which recall the plague di Palermo and the miracol made by the saint. The last day is devoted to the religious celebrations with a solemn function and the procession through the town. The other celebration is during the night between the 3rd and the 4th September, which is the saint's day, when faithful make the "acchianata" that is people walk up to the sanctuary on mount Pellegrino, along the old dirt road.

On the last Sunday of the month Collesano honours S. Vincenzo Ferreri. Such cult dates back to the 1600, there is no procession but it is an important gathering of people because during this period emigrants come back home.

From 25th to 27th Castelbuono celebrates its most important feast to honour the patron S. Anna. Celebrations start on the 17th with the "nuvena", that is nine days of praying. During the nine days a procession that recalls the finding of the stolen relic takes place. The skull of the saint reached the town thanks to Guglielmo, Count of Ventimiglia Ligure, who had to sell all his property and move to Palermo, where Frederick II of Suabia, a relative of his wife, lived. Before leaving his own town the Count received the skull as a present from his friend, the Duke of Lorena. When the Count's son marieed Isabella, Countess of Geraci, the relic wasa transferred to this town where it remained for the following two centuries. Then it reached Castelbuono, the Ventimiglia's family residence.

On the 31st at Palazzo Adriano there will be the traditional night excursion to the mountain of the Roses. On August 1st , at dawn the inhabitants, facing east (that town has Albanian origin), intone an ancient song "O e Bukura Morè", which recalls their home country.