Historical Reenactment

Friday, April 18, 2025

The historical re-enactment of the Passion of Christ through the streets of Grassina on Good Friday

The historical re-enactment of Good Friday

One of the oldest representations dedicated to the Passion of Jesus the Nazarene. Its origins, according to some historical sources, date back to the 17th century.
Today the re-enactment involves more than 500 participants in period costume. For about five hours the spectacle unfolds with evocative events that reenact and revive along the streets of the village the setting and characters of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago.

Places of the re-enactment

Grassina, a small town a few kilometers from Florence in the populous municipality of Bagno a Ripoli at the gateway to the well-known Chianti region. Its streets, its central square are the places that host some of the most important moments of the historical revocation. Stores and stores also participate in the event by competitively decorating their windows with images and signs that tell aspects and meanings of the Good Friday historical re-enactment. In fact, the whole town of Grassina is the protagonist of the event.

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Story of a Passion

How does our adventure begin? We are a Di Volontariato Organization founded in 1979 when a group of grassinese volunteers revived the event in a theater hall in the form of living paintings with original text and musical adaptation. It was an experience that was mainly religious in nature, but it gave the impetus for the revival of the historical performance today.
Also documented by some historical records, popular tradition dates the Grassina Good Friday Historical Reenactment to the early decades of the 17th century.