Palermo, the record group: 400 thousand in the streets to celebrate Santa Rosalia

Great public success for the edition signed by Lollo Franco and Letizia Battaglia. Red t-shirts in the field against racism


A record Santa Rosalia Festino. According to the municipality, at least 400 thousand people sank between the Cbadaro and the Foro Italico for the 394th edition of the Festino, signed by Lollo Franco and Letizia Battaglia for the srls of the Vm Agency Group

The wagon of the party at the height of the cathedral, After the initial show, led by Leo Gullotta, on the Palazzo Reale floor, he headed to the Quattro Canti to arrive, by Porta Felice, to the sea. In the four stages. The mayor unveiled the statue of teenage girl Santa Rosalia, showing the crowd a red T-shirt against all forms of racism. In front of the main car, there is another small boat-shaped boat that houses eight little girls dressed as "Rosalia". Of different nationalities, but all born in Palermo.

Red t-shirts at the procession: Palermo, the photorontage of Festino

Even Archbishop Corrado Lorefice joined the protest in honor of the "Santuzza". "With the theme of child Rosalia – says Lorefice – Palermo had the opportunity to rediscover itself as a child, able to look at life and human relationships with more real eyes".

For the mayor, the Festino is "the children's party – says Orlando – of a Palermo increasingly welcoming and unprejudiced, just like children". The theme, this year was just "Rosalia Bambina", and strongly intertwined with the themes of anti-racism, also for the manifestation of red t-shirts that preceded the celebrations in honor of the patron of Palermo .

the stage of the cathedral, stop at the Quattro Canti for the traditional wishes of the mayor "Viva Palermo e Santa Rosalia". A phrase that Orlando Leoluca repeated several times, adding "Viva Palermo capital of culture" and "Palermo I love you". The Four Songs also performed the performance of the acrobats of La Fura dels Baus 40 meters high, before the continuation of the procession along the Corso Vittorio Emanuele until the Foro Italico, where the show is reserved for fireworks. ;artifice.