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Holy Week at Piazza Armerina |
 The Holy Week at Piazza Armerina is characterized by moments of particular emotion. On Holy Thursday the believers are used to go to church for the "devotion of the seven churches", but it is on Good Friday that the feast assumes a real dramatic tone. |
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 Philip is a Saint, whose date of commemoration in Sicily is not certain: it depends on local customs. At Piazza Armerina he is celebrated on 11th May. Among the roaring shots of fire crackers, shouting "Viva San Fulippu!"(Long live Saint Philip),
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 The feast of Piazza Vecchia, which is celebrated on 3rd May, is suggestive and original. In the morning, while the festive bells are ringing, the banner of the Madonna of Victories, escorted by the knights who won the previous year's Norman Palio, is carried in a procession |
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 Pope Nicolò II donated the canvas banner with the picture of Mary with the Child, which today is worshipped at Piazza Armerina, to Count Roger the Norman, when he swore fidelity to the Church.
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