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Itineraries and tours | Religious | The Holy Week in Taranto
The Holy Week rites in Taranto start on Palm Sunday.
The rites of Holy Week go back to the Spanish domination in southern Italy: in fact the events have many resemblances with the Spanish ones. They were introduced in the city by the patrician Don Diego Calò, who in 1703 built in Naples the statues of Dead Jesus and of Our Lady of Sorrows. In 1765 the patrician Francesco Antonio Calò, heir and guardian of the tradition of the Good Friday Mysteries procession, donated the two statues to the brotherhood of Carmel, with the condition that they be paraded on Good Friday to keep the tradition that had started about a century earlier.
On Palm Sunday, the two major brotherhoods of Taranto, the Addolorata (belong to the church of San Domenico Maggiore, located in the Borgo Antico) and the Carmine (belonging to the Carmelite church located in Borgo Nuovo), compete in a race to award the statues to bring into processions. The two brotherhoods meet every year to participate to the auction that will award the statues. The highest bid wins and the money raised will be donated for charity during the year.
During this tour, will be also visiting Grottaglie, famous for its production of ceramics; the picturesque Baroque town of Martina Franca and the Crispiano Hundred Farmhouses.
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