{"id":4861,"date":"2018-01-02T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T09:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.wordpress.com\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2020-09-12T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T09:02:55","slug":"presepe-nativity-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/?p=4861","title":{"rendered":"Presepe…Nativity Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have made it to the end of another year, or rather the beginning of a new one.\u00a0 Welcome to 2018!\u00a0 the last year has gone by in a flash, and the last couple of weeks even more so.\u00a0 The holidays always seem to be a mad rush.\u00a0 We have actually taken our winter break pretty easy this year, trying not to eat too much and taking daily walks.\u00a0 The company Mauro works for shuts down for 10 days so he is always home for the holidays.\u00a0 Time spent with my favorite boys, one of the things that I enjoy most about the holidays here, is visiting\u00a0\u00a0presepe..<\/em>.nativity scenes.
\nSt. Francis of Assisi is the person credited for having created the first nativity scene in 1223 so it’s roots in Italy run deep.\u00a0 \u00a0There are living nativities, performed\u00a0 by locals in town and cities all over Italy, and others made up of figurines.\u00a0 I will have to cover the living nativities another time.\u00a0 The figurines in some of the historic nativities here can be hundreds of years old.\u00a0 They can be mechanical, with moving parts or just figurines, and are truly works of art!
\nOn one of our afternoon walks last week led us to our towns deconsecrated church where a collection of nativity scenes, done by our catechism groups, schools (religion is an optional class, 2 hours each week) and individuals are displayed.\u00a0 It’s the first year where our community has put something like this together and I was really surprised by the variety and creativity of the different nativities so I thought I would share a few of my favorites.
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Emanuele’s Catechism group made these from toilet paper rolls…<\/p><\/div>
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My good friend, Elena, made this with her children…<\/p><\/div>
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This is just a small section of a nativity made using corks…<\/p><\/div>
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A more traditional nativity…Fausto, the man who made it, makes new nativities every year as a hobby…<\/p><\/div>
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Light bulb nativity…I love the creativity behind this.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/div>
\nIf you ever decide to visit Italy in the winter, whether you are visiting small towns or big cities, make sure you add\u00a0presepe<\/i> to your list of things to do.\u00a0 They are usually open between December 24th and January 6th (The Epiphany) when the Befana<\/em>\u00a0(The Christmas Witch) comes and takes the\u00a0feste<\/em> away.
\nBuon Anno Nuovo!\u00a0<\/em>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have made it to the end of another year, or rather the beginning of a new one.\u00a0 Welcome to 2018!\u00a0 the last year has gone by in a flash, and the last couple of weeks even more so.\u00a0 The holidays always seem to be a mad rush.\u00a0 We have actually taken our winter break … Continue reading Presepe…Nativity Scenes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisasdolceitalia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}