For nearly thirty years, the Pro Loco of Specchia organizes on the day of Christmas Eve, the ‘Sagra della Pittula'. Among the stands of the festival, in Piazza del Popolo, in addition to pittule, typical frittelle made from simple ingredients such as flour, water and yeast, other products of Salentine cuisine can be tasted such as pucce with olives and purceddhuzzi. The event also includes the lighting of the Focaredda, a symbolic bonfire of fagots and parts of the trunk of wood, built with the contribution of the people of Specchia, which according to popular tradition, serves to warm the newborn baby Jesus.