Infiorata di Noto 2024

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Infiorata di Noto 2024, the 45th edition of the famous flower festival, will take place between Friday, May 17, and Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Via Corrado Nicolaci, in Noto.

Infiorata di Noto is part of the Baroque Spring (Primavera Barocca), a series of events including concerts, craft exibitions and the Baroque Procession (Corteo Barocco).

The Baroque Procession consists of people in period costumes, flag-wavers and musicians, who parade through the streets of the historical center of Noto.

WHAT ARE THE DATES FOR INFIORATA DI NOTO 2024?

As usual, Infiorata di Noto 2024 will take place on the third weekend of May.

More precisely, the festival will be held between Friday, May 17, when the participating artists will start creating their works, and Tuesday, May 21, when the floral panels will be removed.

WHAT IS THE LOCATION FOR INFIORATA DI NOTO 2024?

Infiorata di Noto 2024 will take place, of course, in Noto, in Via Corrado Nicolaci, not far from the Cathedral of Noto.

Via Corrado Nicolaci is a sloping street with a length of 122 meters, which will turn during the festival into a huge floral painting.

SHORT HISTORY OF INFIORATA DI NOTO

Infiorata di Noto was born 40 years ago, when the Noto floral artists met the ones from Genzano, part of the Metropolitan City of Rome, where this pictorial technique was developed.

Starting with 1980, every year, in the third weekend of May, Noto, the Stone Garden, as it was called by the historian Cesare Brandi, welcomes in the heart of its historical center an explosion of color and perfume.

On this occasion, Via Corrado Nicolaci, which measures 122 meters in lenght and 7 meters in width, is divided into 16 sectors of 6 by 4 meters.

The street represents the canvas on which the artists carefully paint with flowers, and the resulted floral carpet covers an area of about 700 square meters.

The theme of the festival changes every year, and is usually inspired from religion, mythology, art or local folklore.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR INFIORATA DI NOTO 2024

On Friday, May 17, in the afternoon, the artists who won the competition for the design of the floral panels, will receive one of the 16 sectors assigned to them in Via Corrado Nicolaci.

Then, the artists will begin to draw with special chalks the sketch of their future work.

On Saturday, May 18, they will begin to cover the traced design with flowers specially grown for the event, until the painting will be completed, most often in the early Sunday morning.

On Sunday, May 19, the contest will begin, with locals and tourists alike waiting their turn to admire the wonderful mosaic of petals, until late in the evening.

On Monday and Tuesday, the influx of tourists will continue, until Tuesday evening, when the wilted flowers will be removed.