Faith & the Misteri
The religious heart of the city — the Madonna di Trapani, the baroque churches, and the Processione dei Misteri, the twenty-hour Good Friday procession of life-size sculptures that is among the oldest continuously running in Europe.
Part of Trapani
3 moments in this segment.
- — The Sanctuary of the Annunciation. The 14th-century sanctuary housing the Madonna di Trapani and the Cappella dei Marinai — the chapel of the sailors.
- — The Processione dei Misteri. Trapani's Good Friday procession — twenty life-size sculpted groups of the Passion carried through the streets for twenty unbroken hours, one of the oldest in Europe.
- — The twenty Mysteries. The carved and dressed wooden tableaux of the Passion, each maintained by a guild — borne on the shoulders of bearers in a swaying, music-led 'annacata'.
