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
8 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'.
- - The Misteri procession explained. A twenty-two minute account of the Processione dei Misteri, the Good Friday procession that carries twenty groups of sculptures through Trapani for a full day and night. It sets out how the ceti, the trade confraternities, organise and carry them.
- - Good Friday in the old town. A short record of the Misteri passing through the older streets of Trapani on Good Friday 2025. The procession sets out from the church of the Souls in Purgatory and continues for a full day.
- - The greengrocers carry their group. The fruit and vegetable sellers' confraternity carries its sculpture group, Jesus before Annas, during the Misteri procession of 3 April 2026. Each of the twenty groups belongs to a particular trade.
- - San Francesco di Paola through the streets. An unedited recording of the procession for San Francesco di Paola, a co-patron of Trapani, filmed on 19 April 2026. It runs the length of the route in the city centre.
- - The feast of Sant'Alberto. Footage taken on 6 and 7 August 2026 during the processions for Sant'Alberto, the patron saint of Trapani. The feast falls in the first week of August and moves through the city over two days.
