Festa season

This is festa season in Malta when most parish churches celebrate the week-long celebration in honor of their titular saint, culminating with a procession usually held on Sunday evening. The churches themselves are decorated with lights and colored motifs, which make them look quite spectacular. These are just two of the churches, the first one from Balzan, the feast of the Annunciation of Mary and the second one in Vittoriosa, the feast of St Lawrence the martyr. 

Often as many as 6 parishes celebrate their feast on a particular Sunday, and the Assumption of Mary has 10 parishes with that title, and so August 15 is a busy day for churches, priests, lay people, altar servers, marching band players, decorators, nougat sellers, and fireworks enthusiasts. Between mid-May and mid-September as many as 60 feasts are celebrated all over the Maltese islands.