Traditions

This is a Summer traditional feast. Every year it takes place at the Numana marina and attracts thousands of tourists. The holy mess is celebrated after that some fishermen have homaged the Virgin by bringing her out of the sea with the help of five divers, who take the statue away from the bottom. All around a warm atmosphere is created and tourists’ candles ...

Fish festival is a three day event which has been satisfying tourists and locals’ palate for 30 years, making them know the folkloristic and gastronomic side of Numana and of the Riviera del Conero. The festival is organized by “Comitato La Maretta” and every year in May attracts thousands of people.

In Summer 2010 kites were called to become again main characters in Numana.

Thanks to “Kites in freedom” many kites of different types – acrobatic and static kites, power kites and wind games – have enlivened the sky with a number of different spectacular performances. Such an event was inspired by a book kept in the archive of the Tourism ...

Many years ago in Numana families of fishermen practiced an old fishing technique called with the dialectal word “Sciabiga”. This refers to one of the oldest fishing methods used in the Mediterranean sea. it is very similar to the one practiced with a gill net and called “tratta” in Italian. Sciabiga indeed is a technique known also by ancient peoples as ...