TERRA DE ABRIL (VILAR DE PERDIZES)

Every seven years, in the Trás-os-Montes mountains of northern Portugal, a remote village, Vilar de Perdizes, puts on a Mystery of the Passion performed by the inhabitants, following an original text transmitted by oral tradition, in which the devil plays the leading role. In April 1976, it was also the time of the second free elections in Portugal, after 48 years of obscurantism…