Festino di Santa Rosalia ★ 4.8
The Festino di Santa Rosalia on 14 to 15 July in Palermo is the city's 400-year-old patron-saint festival, with street food stalls, babbaluci snails.
Focus: Sicilian street food, babbaluci (snails), watermelon
Food festivals in Palermo worth planning a trip around, by month.
Festivals through the year
Sfincione Fest ★ 4.4
Sfincione Fest in mid-November in Bagheria 15km east of Palermo fills Corso Umberto I with sfincione vendors from 30-plus bakeries, the canonical Bagherese.
Focus: Sfincione (Sicilian focaccia pizza)
Cous Cous Fest at San Vito Lo Capo ★ 4.6
Cous Cous Fest at San Vito Lo Capo north-west of Palermo in late September is the Mediterranean's largest couscous festival, with chefs from 10-plus.
Focus: Couscous trapanese, Mediterranean and North African couscous
Festa dei Morti ★ 4.5
The Festa dei Morti on 1 to 2 November in Palermo is the city's All Souls market festival, with stalls of frutta martorana, biscotti dei morti and pupi di.
Focus: Frutta martorana, biscotti dei morti, Sicilian sweets
Festa di San Giuseppe ★ 4.4
Festa di San Giuseppe on 19 March in Palermo brings sfincia di San Giuseppe (ricotta cream pastry) to every pasticceria, the city's St Joseph's Day annual.
Focus: Sfincia di San Giuseppe, frittelle di riso, pasta con le sarde