Dwingeloo is preparing for The Passion, the musical Easter story that can be seen in the village tonight. The municipality of Westerveld expects that the event area on the Kleine Brink will fill up with around 5,000 visitors tonight.
In the run-up to the Easter story on Maundy Thursday, there was a friendly atmosphere in the village center. Until today at 12 noon, when the site closed, many people took a look at the square. “I’m cycling by now, because I’ll be sitting in front of the television during the live show,” he said.
Even during that general, which was scheduled for this afternoon at 2:30 p.m., the fanatical fans were not out of the cold. “We want to experience this once,” said Tonnie van Boeken along one of the fences surrounding the site. “We are here on holiday, we booked it around it. We just want to see how this all goes.”
The event area is open to the public a little earlier than the planned 7 p.m. At that moment, the first thousand people were on their feet for the sixteenth edition of the Easter story. The expectation is that the number of visitors will increase steadily.
The first streams of spectators, with full tour buses and rows of cars at the parking lots, caused traffic jams near Dwingeloo around 7:15 p.m.
Traffic is quite quiet around the N855, with motorists patiently trying to reach the parking spaces. The police drive there to manage the influx
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