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Infiorata di Noto
On the third Sunday of May a steep baroque street in Sicily is paved with pictures made of petals.
What happens
Noto, a baroque town in south-east Sicily, has held its Infiorata since 1980. Over the weekend of the third Sunday of May, artists cover Via Nicolaci, a sloping street beneath carved stone balconies, with a line of large pictures. The designs are drawn in chalk on the paving and filled in with petals, seeds, leaves and earth through Friday night. Visitors walk up the side of the street to see them. On Monday children are let loose to run through and scatter the petals.
The flowers
Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Noto" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Dianthus: Darkone ( talk · contribs ), CC BY-SA 1.0, source
- Flower carpet: Francisco Conde Sánchez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gerbera: Novita Saulina Sitohang, CC BY 4.0, source