Best known for its ceramics and its impressive 142-step Scalinata di Santa Maria del Monte staircase, the hilltop town of Caltagirone (see the map) provides its visitors with two wonderful spectacles.

Visit between around 29 April and 02 June 2019 for the Infiorata when the ceramic-inlaid stairs are carpeted in a floral display of thousands of plants and flowers composed into a picture.  At the end of July (24/25) and again on the 14/15 August , the stairs are lit up with numerous flickering candles during the Illuminata. "La Scala Infiorata" is a tribute to the Virgin Mary. Of Conadomini, patron of the city. Thousands of vases with plants from different shades of color, form one grand design on the Scala Santa Maria del Monte. The duration of over a month allows tourists and visitors to plan their coming to admire the grandeur of the Scala Santa Maria del Monte, pottery and flowers spring colors. Their presence is in fact more and more numerous.

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