News and events in Trapani
BOOK NOW
      

Pasqua - processione dei misteri - b&b trapani

Pasqua - processione dei misteri - b&b trapani

Every year on Good Friday in Trapani, you live a great emotion, or the repetition of a centuries-old tradition which depicts the suffering and death of Christ: The Procession of the Mysteries. These 18 sculptures and two statues, made of wood, cloth and glue between the seventeenth eighteenth century the thriving artisan Trapani. The procession has Spanish origins, and was run by the Confraternity of the Precious Blood and then by the Brotherhood of St. Michael. Over the years he was assigned to the guilds, the masters, by whom, was born in 1974, the Union Craftsmen who is the organizer of this beautiful car ever repeated a secular tradition that has never lost its charm, despite the pathological changes dictated by the passage of time.

At 14.00 o´clock on Good Friday, Sacred Baroque church groups come out of Purgatory, brought back from the typical "Massari" or by young volunteers, accompanied by the classic sound of funeral marches sung by musical bands, then snake along a path that touches the main streets of the city for almost 24 hours without interruption. During the night the Mysteries through the streets of the most characteristic and beautiful old town is wonderful to see all the people on the streets at night with the noise of drums and in particular ciaccole in the background. The Mysteries will pass by quickly between a stop and the other up to the Barracche, is the dawn, the procession is recomposed, the bands begin to play, and between un´annacata and the other path is the last piece the route.

On Saturday morning, the square fills growing purgatory, here one of the most exciting moments of the procession entered the church of the Sacred Groups in purgatory.
The Mysteries come one by one in the church accompanied by bands, some crying with emotion, enthused, who take the photographs, those who pray and who takes it all with the cameras.
The latest annacate, the sound of ciaccole, yet a little longer and the procession ends. The consuls of their own groups and Massari accompanied by the bands lead the mysteries inside the church, entering and exiting the front door until the music ends. The procession is about to end with the entry of Our exciting, yet another annacata, yet another blow to ciaccula to point to the nth edition of the procession of Trapani, the door closes and the people leave the streets filled with wax.
The next day is Easter and the machine hosting the Mysteries, or the UNION workers, including a controversy and the other is already working for the procession of the following year.

The Holy Week Trapani is represented by two other historical processions of Mercy on Tuesday and Holy Wednesday, two old paintings or embedded within the Vare, who walk the streets of Old Town, always carried on his shoulder and accompanied by the sad notes of the funeral marches.

The rites of Holy Week Trapani are a fact of history merge, faith, tradition and folklore, whose story is in fact parallel to the history of Trapani. Despite the interventions of restoration and the Mysteries of Trapani has retained its charm, as the procession itself, thanks to the efforts of all those people who care for them with dedication for all the 365-day waiting period that elapses between one year and the other.
During the year, the Sacred Groups are kept in the church of the Purgatory.

INFO www.francescogenovese.net/misteri.html

 

« Read all the news

 


 

B&B Trapani - A Babordo

Via Sant'Andrea, 2 - 91100 Trapani
Tel. +39 380 471 7849 | Email: info@ababordo.it