🎉 Procession

Holy Thursday Sacra Rappresentazione

📍 Marsala · Trapani · Sicily

Nine costumed groups act out Christ's Passion through Marsala's old town on Holy Thursday — a living procession run by the Sant'Anna confraternity since the seventeenth century.

Every Holy Thursday, Marsala stages the Passion with real people instead of statues. Nine costumed tableaux — Roman soldiers, Christ under the cross, the mourning women — set off around midday and wind through the old town until evening, watched by crowds several rows deep.

The Sant'Anna confraternity has kept the tradition going since the seventeenth century, which makes this one of Italy's oldest living Passion processions. In 2025 the cortege left from the Carmine church for the first time ever, while its usual starting point, the Sant'Anna church, was under restoration.

Good Friday follows with the procession of the Dead Christ and Our Lady of Sorrows, and on Holy Wednesday the Last Supper is staged as well. No tickets involved — just pick a spot along the route.

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