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ingleseitalianospagnoloAlpha How do you explain to tourists that it is possible that an entire city holding its breath waiting for the mysteries that we all know Trapani recognize a good annacata a limp, and that the almost all know by heart the music and melodies with which the bands accompany groups in the procession. I do not know if there is a way to explain to visitors from distant as well as how this collective ritual is repeated for 400 years, and always with renewed intensity and absolutely passed. A tradition that does not lose strength, or rather, fortunately, it acquires a new one. More and more. But, perhaps, watching the faces of thousands of tourists with the nose, kidnapped by those statues so intensely express a solemn gesture and absolute, it was possible to discern in them the consciousness of being part of a cult that unites a people and a city. A ritual the great fascination that brings together everyone and not wealthy classes, common workers and wealthy professionals, all, all simply. And at night, then, the mysteries give the best. To illuminate the precious statues are only the candles, the bands are silent, the procession of the spectacular sunrise awaits the audience, and it is there that the sacred groups belong only to those who sweat and toil under the ravages of the massive beams for transport it is there that a woman devoted to barefoot donate his sacrifice to the Virgin Mary in an intimate relationship between her and the sacred icon. It's there that you feel a sense of redemption that the force required to arms to get up in the aftermath - the morning after - with the new light when you can lay on the ground the bier. Following will be tears and hugs. It begins the work and waiting will bring up the next edition.
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