In Caltanissetta, the celebrations for Holy Week begin in the afternoon of Palm Sunday with the procession in the city center of the simulacrum of Jesus Nazarene placed on a boat decorated with flowers. On the Monday and Tuesday preceding Easter, the sacred representations of the Last Supper and the Passion of Jesus, called in dialect, take place in the city streets Scinnence. From Wednesday we enter the heart of the party with the solemn and famous procession of the Real Maestranza which takes place since 1500, in which the representatives of all the oldest local artisan guilds, led by their Captain, move with mourning flags in procession from their seats towards the cathedral, where a rite of regeneration and redemption takes place. The procession in honor of the Blessed Sacrament from the Cathedral continues accompanied by the clergy through the central streets of the city. When the sun goes down on the same day, the procession of the Varicedde, 19 small simulacra that evoke the Product of Holy Thursday. On Thursday evening, the celebration of the Mysteries, is the fulcrum and most spectacular moment of the Holy Week celebrations in Caltanissetta. Starting at 20 pm, the sixteen imposing groups of painted papier-mâché, the so-called "Product”, They walk the streets of the center until late at night. The sculptural groups were almost all made by the artists Francesco and his son Vincenzo Biangiardi at the end of the 800th century, and depict the different moments of the Passion of Christ - The Last Supper, The prayer in the garden, The capture of Jesus, The Sanhedrin , The Flagellation, L'Ecce Homo; The sentence; The First Fall, The Ashen, The Veronica; The Crucifixion, The Deposition, The Pietà, The Translation, The Holy Urn, The Addolorata. The Vare are led respectively by the members of the class to which they belong and by a band, which accompanies the group up to the "Desolata", the culmination of the procession in which with the Spartenza, the separation of the vare, these return to the places where they will be kept for the whole year. The next day, on Good Friday, the procession of the "Lord of the City" takes place, also known as the procession of the "Black Christ" (Christu Nivuru). The simulacrum is the object of strong devotion on the part of the faithful for its miraculous powers. According to the ancient rite, the Maestranza dei Foliarists (gatherers of wild herbs), in a purple dress edged in gold, barefoot on their shoulders the simulacrum from the church of the "Lord of the City" through the streets of the center, singing the "Ladate". The Real Maestranza also takes part in the procession according to the order foreseen in the Wednesday procession. During Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, the intense moments of commemoration close with the celebration of solemn masses.