Easter holidays in Puglia, an holy week to explore the local rites, miths and traditions.

"All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strewen In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own."
Voltaire

The procession of the mysteries develops in the afternoon of Good Friday from the church of Carmine and concludes at dawn on Holy Saturday Between the statues pairs of "perdoni" follow at a very slow pace recalling ritual antique medieval manifestations of sorrow. The paroxysmal "nazzecata" very similar to the "annaccata" of the Sicilian Easter ritual, indeed constitutes a type of suspension in time and the manifestation of mourning through the slowing down of the motor systems of the body and expresses choral sorrow for the death of the Man of God.

A unique opportunity to cycle in Puglia exploring the ritual antique medieval manifestations of sorrow during the Easter week.

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