In the long summer season, San Vito offers its visitors a series of folkloric, sport, cultural, recreation, wine and food events. Some of them have become a must for the guests staying in the town. Such events have proved to appeal not only to those who love the beach and the crystalline sea, but also to those who love meeting, socialising and cultural exchanges.

"San Vito Italia", the meeting of all the Italian towns connected to the figure of the martyr Saint Vito takes place in spring, between the end of April and the beginning of May; a week full of debates, exhibitions, concerts, band parades and promotions of all those places in Italy which are named San Vito.

The festival "Festa di San Vito", the celebration of the saint, takes place in June and officially opens the summer season. From 12th to 15th of June, in fact, the clean and straight streets of the town are embellished with lights and banners and every day the "tamburini" (drummers) stroll around the streets. The event has a strong religious feeeling and finishes with the "sbarco del santo" (arrival of the saint) on the beach of San Vito together with his tutors Modesto and Crescenzia on the 15th. At midnight on the same day, spectacular fireworks will close the event.

"Libri, Autori e Bouganville", meetings with some of the most popular Italian writers, takes place in Via Venza, a typical street open to cultural events, from July to September, which is becoming more and more popular with the years.

	The last week in September is dedicated to ethnic food with the "Cous Cous Fest", a singular food competition which sees countries such as Algeria, France, Italy, Israel, Morocco, Palestine, etc. making cous cous in their own way, which is also an interesting way to strengthen the relationships among such different but also similar cultures.

The best chefs of the Mediterranean fight in a friendly competition to the very last grain of cous cous, where talent, experience and creativity are the indispensable ingredients to dress the dish in all its forms (fish cous cous, meat cous cous, vegetables cous cous). A selected board, formed of Italian and international journalists and headed by famous food critics, will give the prize for the best cous cous in the world.

Another culture and food event "Alla scoperta del Capone" (Discovering the Capone fish) takes place one weekend in between October and November. This event aims at the promotion of a kind of fish which, in autumn, is abundantly fished in the waters off the coast of San Vito. The proper Italian name of this fish is "Lampuga", but in San Vito Lo Capo it is called " Capone" and on this occasion, the restaurants experiment all sorts of ways of cooking it.

These are only a part of the various events which occur in the summer season in San Vito.Actually, every single moment is an event here in paradise!

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