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EVENTS AQUILA SCANNO

Events festivals and events in Scanno - Aquila

Ju Catenacce (August 14, in commemoration of the traditional costume of Scanno Scanno marriage)

The "Torchlight" (from the end of the 2000s the torchlight procession takes place in the evening of August 24 for technical and organizational reasons), sort of Artificial Fireworks on Lake Scanno.

Coffee at a site between Via degli Alpini and Via of the lake are held in August, the "Literary Saturdays", a sort of cultural theme conferences.

At the Auditorium "Guido Calogero" are held exhibitions, classical music concerts and film screenings.

At the library in the country he took place over several years between the nineties and two thousand a chess tournament.

In conjunction of the Epiphany (the eve on January 5 days) the country hosting the party of Chezette, which scannese dialect means "socks", festival of young people singing a serenade with disparate tools in the streets of the country under the windows of girls until the girls do not give it a lot of succulent victuals.

January 17 is celebrated the religious festival of St. Anthony Abbot in which, in ancient times, were offered sagne to the poor.

Good Friday is celebrated with a procession of the Passion, on this occasion runs a Miserere.

30 April or 1 May it organize a procession with the statue of Our Lady of the Lake, which is transported to the parish church where it is held throughout the month.

The following Sunday to June 13 is celebrated the feast of St. Anthony of Padua where Saturday on the eve of the beams a procession is performed while on Sunday the procession of the loaves.

The first Sunday of July is celebrated the Madonna delle Grazie.

August 10 is a pilgrimage to Gallinaro for the cult of San Gerardo Confessor. In ancient times, this pilgrimage was made on foot, but today is used all sorts of means.

The Sunday closest to July 16 is vesteggiata the Madonna del Carmine.

From July to September on the occasion of summer jazz concerts and Afro-Cuban, the outdoor cinema, theater for children recital with gospel and spiritual songs around the squares and streets of the old town.

September 20 is celebrated the patronal feast of Saint Eustace.

Also in September, 1972 is organized the Scanno Prize, divided into various categories and named after its founder and creator, journalist Riccardo Tanturri from the year of his death.

November 10 are turned on the Glories of San Martino.

During the Christmas holidays, they are performed a live nativity scene in traditional dress of the place and around the end of the year in San Silvestro The ski school also organizes a torchlight.

The country is also home since 1998 the event called "Scanno Photographers".

source wikipedia