An event of great importance for the local community, the Tirata del Carro di Mirabella Eclano consists in the transport through the streets of the city of an obelisk 25 meters high, completely covered with woven straw, handmade by local artisans: a ritual that is renewed every year, between art and folklore.
The Tirata del Carro is a traditional and folkloristic event that takes place in Mirabella Eclano, in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows and on the Saturday preceding the third Sunday of Septe read more
An event of great importance for the local community, the Tirata del Carro di Mirabella Eclano consists in the transport through the streets of the city of an obelisk 25 meters high, completely covered with woven straw, handmade by local artisans: a ritual that is renewed every year, between art and folklore.
The Tirata del Carro is a traditional and folkloristic event that takes place in Mirabella Eclano, in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows and on the Saturday preceding the third Sunday of September.
It is one of the most famous and followed events in Irpinia: it consists in the transport through the streets of the city, precisely from the Santa Caterina area to the village of the town, of an obelisk 25 meters high, completely covered with woven straw, handmade by artisans local.
The Carro di Mirabella Eclano was officially born at the end of the seventeenth century: initially linked to the common two-wheeled agricultural cart, it took the form of an artistic obelisk in 1869, thanks to Stanislao Martino, who managed to bring the style of the Eclanese cart closer to the typical one. of the Spire of the Immaculate Conception in Naples.
Over the years the obelisk, while losing the structure and features of the original nineteenth-century chariot, has been enriched with new decorative and figurative elements that have given further luster and magnificence to a sensational work, whose historical evolution is testified to interior of the Museo del Carro set up in the monumental complex of San Francesco.
During the event, the cart is transported across the fields and along the city streets by six pairs of oxen and a multitude of men. Clinging to the hemp ropes that branch off from it, the "funaioli" pull him with their arms ready to run, to loosen their grip or to slow their run, in order to avoid the most feared event, that is a ruinous fall considered by the protagonists of the rite harbinger of misfortune. This intertwining of such different emotions continues for the entire duration of the Tirata and ends with the transport in triumph of the helmsman and with the blessing of the animals in front of the Church of the Addolorata.
A secular event of great importance for the local community, the Tirata del Carro of Mirabella Eclano involves, every year, thousands of people eager to attend a ritual that is renewed, between art and folklore. read less
