Between all the manifestations that celebrate the Passover Saint, the one which is carried out to Saint Biagio Platani is sure one of most evocative. This ritual that is born from the cult of the Madonna and Christ, places its roots in the '700, when still the country did not count thousand inhabitants. To this tradition the confraternite must birth of the two, Madunnara and Signurara, than with much passion they renew this wonderful manifestation from year to year. This division of the confraternite country in the two does not give origin to a violent antagonism, but to a competition liveliest and exciting, than the night of saturday is concluded, when ciascuna confraternita it prepares the part of the course that competes to them. The preparation, that it begins some month before Passover, demands one great amount of material, all rigorously granted from the nature. That more widely used they are the canes, the salice, the asparago, the bay one, the rosmarino, the cereals, the dates, and the bread, everyone of which is rich of a meant high symbolic. The part more important is constituted from arches centers them, historical origin of the manifestation, under which Sunday morning happens the encounter between revived Jesus and the Madonna. Of year in year, it comes changed the aesthetic one of the course, while it remains invariata the architectonic structure, constituted from the entrance, the tree-lined avenue and the arc. The entrance represents the facade of one church, the tree-lined avenue navata and the arc, opposite to the entrance, the apse of the same church.

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