Salemi Bread Festival : 15/03/09 - 22/03/09

Salemi holds an annual festival during the week of the 19th March. Starting on Sunday the 15th March and running all week to the following weekend, concluding on Sunday 22nd March 2009.

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The festival is...(read more)

...dedicated to san guiseppe, saint St. Joseph, and the principal focus is hand crafted bread made by the local Salemi woman. The bread comes in all forms and sizes and artistically designed into shapes and models, like flowers, animals, cereals and fruit.

Displays in altars and shop windows are often accompanied with branches of laurel and bay leaves, jugs of wine and water (christ's blood and body).

The local woman prepare by hand all the tiny forms of bread which are put together to create the bread shapes. Amazing I've never seen anything like it.

The whole town of Salemi pull together, organise dinners, art, culture for a weeks festival. The best day to visit is the 19th March.

This year the Salemi council in the civic museum are also hosting Caravaggio's Adoration of the Shepards, on loan from the Regional Museum of Messina and paintings by Modigliani are also on show.

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