Holiday in Sicily: here’s what to do during Christmas

An old Italian proverb would like you to spend this period at home with the family. Instead, you are planning to spend a holiday in Sicily at Christmas and you need to know what to do: here there are our tips.

Christmas markets

The first idea must be one of the most typically Christmas attractions. Every year, the Christmas markets in Sicily are different and all suggestive. The most beautiful can be considered these twelve: Agrigento, Belpasso, Caltagirone, Caltanissetta, Capo d’Orlando, Catania, Erice, Gangi, Milazzo, Nicolosi, Ragusa e Rometta Marea. You will enjoy traditional flavours and aromas, lights and toys, crafts and music.

Christmas cribs

From the profane to the sacred, so to speak: from markets to cribs. Even in this case, the choice is particularly wide but, according to many of the visitors who have visited them, the most fascinating Christmas cribs in Sicily are in:

• Caltagirone (Catania);
• Custonaci (Trapani);
• Monterosso Almo (Ragusa).

Among other things, Custonaci and Monterosso Almo have become famous for their living nativity scenes.

What to see

The whole Sicily, at Christmas, is covered with an unique atmosphere that welcomes the visitor with its suggestions, its scents and its traditions. But if you really want to visit places that simply become special at Christmas, then you have to reach:

• Erice (Trapani);
• Ragusa Ibla;
• Castelmola (vicino Taormina).

These three places, especially at night, become real Christmas cribs, believe us.

Sweets

In the Sicilian Christmas, sweets play a very important role: there is no Christmas without tasting them. The cassata and the torrone are real must on any table, as well as the mostaccioli. Cuccìa, buccellato and cubaita are perhaps less known but no less tasty, we can guarantee it.

Tour of Sicily

You are planning to spend an on the road Christmas vacation in Sicily and you need an itinerary. One of the best that we can recommend is certainly the tour of eastern Sicily in seven days: from Messina to Syracuse, in a week you will admire many places that will leave you speechless.

All these ideas have one thing in common: it’s better to have a car with you, which will allow you to visit this land. Cars that you can take on one of the ferries to Sicily.

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