Easter, Sacred week, is the annual commemoration in which the Christian calendar relives the Passion, the Death and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. And therefore an intense period within the various Christian beliefs.
During Easter week numerous popular religious displays take place throughout the world, outstanding are the processions and the representations of the Passion. These traditions are usual in the south of Spain, the population strolls in procession through the village taking with them the figures representing the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ and other Saints.
Easter dates vary in function of the ecclesiastic full moon; therefore can be as early as the 22nd of March or as late as the 25th of April.
In our area, a very special procession is held in the village of Verges, about 15 Kms. from l’Estartit; Legend tells us that in the middle ages a plague devastated many villages in Catalonia. The inhabitants of “Verges” told “death” that if it bypassed and did not enter their village, they would include it in their procession. Death listened to them and passed them by, from then onwards, Verges, dances the dance of death on the night of Mourn Day Thursday and Good Friday.
The dance of death starts at the foot of the medieval wall (*rampart) of the village and then goes to fetch Jesus Christ to travel across the village.
