Gozo is a wash with activities, opportunities and sites perfect for those people after a religious holiday retreat.

Each of Gozo’s many towns and villages pays homage to its patron saint during an exciting and colourful annual feast; these ‘festi’ take place each weekend between the months of May and September.

As the Maltese Islands are predominantly Catholic, other Christian celebrations take place throughout the year including at Christmas and Easter time when the islands come alive with pageantry, processions, exhibitions and tradition.

Every weekend from the last Sunday in May up to mid-September, each town and village organises a festa in honour of the patron saint to whom the parish is dedicated. In these festas, the spiritual and the secular intermingle, religion and folklore abound.

The pilgrim's Mecca of Ta’ Pinu draws thousands of devotees who seek special favour from the divine elements. People go there to ask for, or rather demand, fortune in their endeavours, which may be anything from a business enterprise, to a marriage, a pregnancy and examinations or as a last resort in seeking a cure from serious illness. If things turn out to their satisfaction, they return with a thank-you gift for the Madonna of Tac Pinu, in the shape of a votive offering. The gift is never given before the favour is received, but only promised. Glass cases in the church display these offerings; silver hearts, christening robes, artificial limbs, splints, and more. Weddings in Gozo end with the bridal bouquet being placed on the altar of Tac Pinu, for a happy marriage. Devotion to Tac Pinu is still alive among the thousands of Gozitan emigrants as can be witnessed from the letters sent by Gozitans living in far-off countries.