Sunà de Mars

Aprica once again celebrates the Sunà de Mars, the town’s most important traditional folklore festival that intends to reinvigorate the soil and wake it up after its winter dormancy. 

Before the notion of winter tourism had become a thing and Aprica was still just a cluster of farms, its inhabitants used to welcome the season of spring by ringing their cowbells. The tradition has lived on, with each neighbourhood taking it in turns to start the chiming. Beginning in either S. Pietro, Dosso, Mavigna, S. Maria, Liscidini or Liscendo, residents take to the streets with their typical bronse and sampogn bells in a bid to wake up the soil and encourage nature to run its course. 

For more information, visit the official website of Aprica