St. Peter Feast

Terrasini has a strong seafaring tradition and inclination. Here the sea breeze is strong, 365 days a year, to have fun or to have a job. Sailors in Terrasini have a very ancient historical tradition and can display one of the greater fishing fleet of Sicily.

To protect them, there is St. Peter, holy fisherman and soul fisherman. The sailors are very devoted to him, they celebrate him in summer with a typical procession of the simulacrum of the saint, across land and sea.

In fact the saint is carried on a beached ship and taken through the streets of the Marina quarter, then the statue is placed on a fishing boat and leaves the harbor with a lot of other ships, to do a suggestive procession across the sea.

The fishermen thanks the saint for the good years and pray him to protect them from the storms and from that strange destiny that indissolubly joins the fishermen and the blue expanse, bearer of life and death.

The feast go on with a giant fish panful, very appreciated by the tourists; with typical folk games e.g. the “antenna a mare”, a balance proof on a slimy horizontal pole over the sea. T

he feast ends finally with the tradional fireworks on sea, fantastic background of the “faraglioni”, as if they thanks St. Peter for the graces..