Feast Of St Peter & Paul

Feast Of St Peter & Paul

The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul is a Public Holiday in Gozo & Malta.

This feast marks an important event in the calendar of Maltese popular customs and traditions.  It is a country harvest and folk festival as well as a religious holiday.  The festival is named L-Imnarja, a corruption of the Italian ‘Luminara’ and means festival of light.  It is named after the bonfires that used to light up the festivities in the towns of Mdina and Rabat.