La Passió d’Ulldecona

500 years of history

In 2012, a unique document from 1512 was discovered in the Chapter and Diocesan archives of Tortosa, certifying that religious performances were already taking place in Ulldecona more than 500 years ago.

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

Recently, performances of this fragment of the manuscript, in Old Catalan, have been performed, which is known as the act of the Descent from the Cross.

70 years of performances

The current Passion of Ulldecona was born in 1955, by Josep M. Rafí i Poblet using various texts.

• In 1964, the text by Josep M. Junyent Quintana premiered.
• In 1993, a new text was premiered in Catalan, written by Jaume Vidal i Alcover, combining the Passion in Catalan and Spanish ever since.
• In 2014, a new version by playwright Ignasi Roda i Fàbregas based on the work by Junyent Quintana premiered.

Finally, in 2016, the stage, dramatic, and literary aspects were unified by the different authors, using the same text in both the Catalan and Spanish versions.

Currently, the Ulldecona Passion Play is made up of 150 people, divided between actors, actresses and technicians, who make possible every spring, without interruption, the performance of the greatest show produced in our region.

A Passion that is close, dynamic, with emotions on the surface and modernized every year with the latest technologies, which will transport the viewer to the center of the greatest story ever told.