Christmas is a period full of lights, events and magic, and what is more magical than an illuminated and decorated village that makes us feel immersed in this atmosphere?
Southern Italian villages are one of the most charming places to visit at Christmas. With their cobblestone streets, full of decorations and Christmas markets.
Here is a selection of 3 small towns and villages where you can enjoy the Christmas atmosphere:
- LOCOROTONDO (Puglia)
Every year Locorotondo prepares to welcome local and foreign visitors who want to experience firsthand living in a Christmas fairy tale.
Every street is decorated with care and precision to transport you to the same Christmas story you read as a child. This small town is ideal to visit with the family if you want to spend a fabulous weekend.
- VILLALAGO (Abruzzo)
Perhaps the only underwater nativity scene in the world. On the night of December 26, after a procession and the typical fireworks, several divers accompanied by torches dive into the waters of Lake San Domenico. There, several rafts carry ceramic figures alluding to the nativity scene into the sea and let them sink to the bottom, offering tourists a unique spectacle.
- ERICE (Sicilia)
If you love Christmas more than anything else and look forward to this period, you cannot miss the village of nativity scenes. In Erice, nativity scenes are everywhere: in churches, among the narrow streets of the village and in store windows. Monumental, traditional, baroque, modern or ceramic, they are the top decoration that gives the village an evocative magic all to be discovered.