Indoor and outdoor Nativity in the World

Vatican

Pope John Paul II, recorded in 1982, the annual tradition of placing a nativity scene on display in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before the Christmas tree. The cribs introduced new characters such as farmers, a flutist, a pastor and a bagpipe player. This new record was by Italian sculptors and Sawyers, particularly from the city of Trento. Antique cribs made in the same city has also been found inVatican audience hall.

In 2007, Bethlehem was the crib is not in Nazareth and, above all in the house of Joseph. A year later, the same Italian town of wooden figures, animals and tools for daily life in a house was to portray.

The Pope has served a Christmas party last Sunday before Piazza S. Peter. It includes blessings from hundreds of cribs and baby. Until now, this tradition is still maintained. In 1978Tens of thousands of students participated in the ceremony. This encourages Christians to engage in similar events. Cribs have been used for more elaborate clothing and footwear, such as wax and ivory, richly dressed.

France

Nativity figures, little saint, is a figure of clay miniature hand-painted in Provence, France. These ceramic nativity scene symbolize different characters in a village life. The production of these figures is a pastGeneration to another. At Christmas time, policy-makers in various places Santon display and sell their goods in Marseille and elsewhere in south-eastern France.

United States

The cribs are exposed century in the United States from 18. One of the oldest nurseries in the Moravian Church in Pennsylvania. Cribs are similar in the north Moravian churches and homes in Pennsylvania andCarolina.

Former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush was an Italian nativity scene in the East Room of the White House. The crib was made to the eighteenth century and was donated to the White House in the twentieth century.

Poland

In Krakow, Poland, the traditional nativity scenes are made to symbolize Christmas. Szopka These are called, whose production dates back to the thirteenth century. As part of the traditions, szopkaara brought from house to house by groups of plays of the Nativity. The products are mostly made of aluminum foil, wood and cardboard, while others are mechanized. Most of the pieces are elaborate design with the prices in an annual competition on the main square of Krakow awarded. The best are among the exhibits at the Historical Museum of Krakow.