Editing Procida (section)

===Folklore and traditions===
There are many religious traditions on the island tied to the period of [[Holy Week]] before [[Good Friday]]. The most evocative of these are the Procession of the Apostles of Holy Thursday and the Procession of the Mysteries of Good Friday. The last one is based on a tradition going back to the end of the 17th century. In the [[procession]], the young males of the island, dressed in the traditional dress of the "Confraternity of the Turchini", carry [[allegory|allegorical]] wagons (called "mysteries") of religious character for a fixed distance, from the village of Torre Murata to the port of Marina Grande. The "mysteries", often highly artistic, are prepared by the young people and generally, nobody except them would have, at least in theory, seen them before the procession. After the procession, they are taken apart or destroyed.

Every summer, there is an election of the ''Graziella'' ("Little Graceful"), a young woman that wears the customary clothes of the island, referring to the history told in [[Alphonse de Lamartine]]'s novel, ''Graziella''. Also during the summer, a [[literary award]] dedicated to [[Elsa Morante]] and her novel, ''Arthur's Island'', is presented.