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San Gandolfo Festival
The 7th Wednesday after Easter and the 3rd week end in September
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The Most Holy Crucifix
Starts May 1st
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La Sagra delle Nocciole (The Hazelnut Festival)
Always in August usually after the 15th, a moveable date

Lo Sfoglio
Late August

Santa Lucia
December 13

 
 
 
 

Associated Links

www.go-sicily.it

www.visitingsicily.it

www.timesofsicily.com


 


Roses from a Sicilian garden plot

Posted by Suzanne on 01 Sep 2017

 

 

A rose bush

One afternoon a few months ago I was returning to Polizzi up the narrow Scillato road when I noticed a rose bush almost totally covered with red blooms.

It was spring.

 

 

A gift of  roses

I stopped to take some photos and was soon welcomed by the owner of the garden plot behind the rose bush.  I met his wife and we talked a while. He gave me some beautiful cut roses and from memory, a sprig of mint. 

This well- tended garden on the Scillato Road is in a verdant valley to the north of Polizzi Generosa where abundant gardens are found: private garden plots, olive groves, old hazelnut groves, fields of badda beans and small orchards. From this lovely plot Polizzi can be seen perched high on a great spur.

I took the roses back to the house.

 

 

After winter in the mountains

The flowers of the Madonie Mountains, both wild and planted, thrive in the spring after the cold of an inland winter.

Enjoy the roses (above) from the plot on the Scillato Road and scroll down for a few photos taken in Polizzi.

 

 

Salve

Suzanne


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