Summer carnival
Photo: agoinunpagliaio Flickr
Where: Acireale (CT)
History: Acireale is undisputed "queen" of the Sicilian carnival.
Ten artisan yards feverishly work every year to prepare as many wagons that, on the occasion of the "more beautiful carnival of Sicily", they unthread stately in procession for the roads of the center, in an I exult of colors and imagination among thousand of people that fill the roads and the plazas of the city originating from the whole island.