Dear friends, with the approach of the end of the year holidays of this very sad 2020, allow us to wish you a Merry Christmas with images of something beautiful that at the moment we are not allowed to visit. We are talking about the figurines of traditional Neapolitan nativity scenes, which are found in the Certosa di San Martino, in the Royal Palace of Naples and in the Royal Palace of Caserta. These sites are in fact currently closed and it is not known when they will be reopened, just as we do not know when we will return to a normal life, also made up of travel and accessible tourism, as we like it. So we just have to keep holding on, rethinking our travel experiences and preparing for when we can live new ones. As for the photos, forgive us if they are not of optimal quality, but our modest machine suffers from the presence of glass cases; on the other hand we have borrowed some beautiful images of our friend Fiorenzo, an experienced photographer, whom we thank.
Continuing our little journey among the cribs, in the church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the historic center of Naples, we find this wooden crib built between 1509 and 1511 by Pietro Belverte from Bergamo:
A small foray into the contemporary with this coral nativity scene exhibited a few years ago at the Villa Fiorentino in Sorrento:
And again the use of an unusual material, tin, in this "very poor" nativity scene by the architect and designer Riccardo Dalisi, who exhibited it in 2013 at the Castle of Limatola (BN):
And we close with this beautiful wooden sculpture by Giovanni da Nola, a sixteenth-century artist, entitled "Joseph and the Virgin", which is located at the Certosa di San Martino:
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR THAT IS REBIRTH FOR EVERYONE !!