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The Party of San Vito is celebrated every year the 15 of June, the whole country it attends with joy this moment and alive with great fervor the preparations.
The peak of the event is the long Procession of the 15 evening, but it is worth to also participate in the moments of fun, that serve as frame to the religious event, in the preceding days.
The navy of the country participates compact to the Party and, in fact, the traditional game of the Sea (a beam of 10 meters on the water) spar is effected in the small dock, among the colored boats of the fishermen.During the days of the Party you can be assisted to celebrations, you pared of musical gangs and concerts in square .But the most suggestive moment of the party he lives to the dusk of June 15 when the boats in roadstead in the I bring of San Vito Lo Capo, to an agreed upon signal, they go out in sea to festively welcome the small boat that transports the young Vito, his teacher Modesto and the nurse Crescenza.Just joints in the beach the three Saints are welcomed by the population that it attended them and greeted by the boats of the fishermen with the sound of the sirens and with the throwing of rockets.And' already dark when the picturesque procession, that unties him for the streets of the country between hymns and prayers, comes in front of the in front of the Sanctuary.Finally everybody attends that goes out from the Church the statue of San Vito.This intense religious moment marks the beginning of the summer season.