The Passion of Ulldecona

A spectacle of the life and work of Jesus full of theatrical dynamism, where the sequencing of the scenes will make the viewer immersed in a story full of tenderness, despair, emotion, tension, joy..., that will not leave anyone indifferent..

500 years of history

In 2012, a unique document from 1512 was discovered in the Capitular and Diocesan archives of Tortosa that certifies that more than 500 years ago, in Ulldecona, representations of a religious nature were already made.

In the Parish Archive of Ulldecona, within the "Book of Resolutions of the Clergy of Ulldecona (1558-1840)", a "Descent" manuscript was found that was studied by Jaume Romeu Figueras in 1962 and duly treated in his work "The texts on the Descent from the Cross in Catalonia". The document in question is a text of 248 verses that was part of a set of acts or paintings about the passion of Christ.

Recently, representations have been made of this fragment of the manuscript, in ancient Catalan, and which is known as the act of the "Descent from the Cross."

More than 60 years of performances

The current Passion of Ulldecona was born in 1955 by Josep M. Rafí Poblet. After interpreting several recast texts, in 1964 the Spanish version by Josep M. Junyent Quintana was released. In 1993 this text was alternately combined with a new text in Catalan by Jaume Vidal i Alcover, and starting in 2014 the Catalan language version by the playwright Ignacio Rueda Fábregas was released, after drafting the most current evangelical text based on the original work of Junyent Quintana.