The traditional nativity scene is a complex plastic composition set up during the Christmas period: statues of various materials placed in a realistically reconstructed environment are part of it. All the characters and places of tradition appear, then a cave or a hut, the manger where there is the Baby Jesus (on Christmas night), Joseph and Mary, the ox and the donkey, the shepherds and the sheep, the Angels and, on the day of the Epiphany, the Three Kings. Some local traditions also provide for the addition of additional statues, and the exact origin of the nativity scene is difficult to define, as it is the product of a long process. Commonly the inventor is considered St. Francis of Assisi, because at Christmas 1223
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Pellicole decorative
