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Parties of the Militias 
The celebrations of the "Party of the Militias" you/they are effected on preceding Saturdays on Sundays of Easter. In the representation the suggestive environments of the struggle and popular actors are recreated with suits of epoch and weapons, they recite on the roads ripercorrendo the more moments' important of the battle between Turks and Christians. The demonstration concludes him with the miraculous intervention of the Virgo Maria (said "of the Militias") that, gone down by the Sky in rump to a White Horse, it frees the city from the foreign siege. 
 
The Joy 
To the peak of the Week Saint, the day of Easter is celebrated the Resurrezione of Christ, says the Alive man, to the cry of "Joy", from which for antonomasia the Joy. The wooden statue of the Christ, eighteenth-century opasoera attributed to Civiletti and guarded in the Church of Saint Maria the Nova, you/he/she is brought in procession for the streets of the city and sort to ripple and to actually dance in sign of joy for the whole day to late time. 
 
Ride of St. Joseph 
The preceding day on March (or that following) 19 from the Church of St. Joseph a suggestive procession of horses and riders it departs, says the Ride of St. Joseph for the streets of the city of Scicli. Showing up that St. Joseph and the Virgo Maria represent they drive the procession that passes in the various districts in which are prepared some bonfires, of the said fires Pagghiari, where the riders and the people that it follows the ride it turns on some bundles of said stubbles ciaccāre. On March 19 the same procession melts him to that religious of St. Joseph. The representation wants to remember the Escape in Egypt of Joseph and Maria, after the edict of it Erodes. The evening of Saturday of the Ride in the church square of the church of St. Joseph a Supper develops him in which typical products are banished for picking up offers for the parish and the poor men, and the horses and riders of the Ride witness to the Supper, at the end of which the best flowered mantles will be rewarded. 
 
The Carnival 
The Carnival from years is celebrated in Progress Umberto, said by the places "to stratanova" (the new road) and it develops him with demonstrations, sketches in mask, parades and allegorical wagons. 
 
Festival Basole of Light  
Traditionally in the month of August the Festival Basole of Light develops him. Its name wants to glorify the light reflected on the basoles of the streets of the historical center, diventanto patrimony of the humanity from when the Unesco has inserted Scicli beautiful World Heritage List. Basole of Light foresees for the whole period a series of demonstrations of cultural character with musical shows, theatrical and of diversion tied by an only denominator, the comparison among the etnies and the people.
 
 
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