Mysterie

In Trapani there is a famous procession at Easter. Some of the twenty "floats" are hundreds of years old. They are wooden statues on wooden bases depicting the "Passion of Christ" (the time of Christ's trial and hanging by cross.) Each scene depicts a different stage of the progress and each is carried by a trade: salt workers, fishermen, etc. through the streets of old town Trapani for 24 hours. Besides the trades, each group is accompanied by a band and a group of youth who seems to function to clear the path for the float.