30 listopada 2024 - 6 stycznia 2025
Cervia, Milano Marittima
Christmas Nativity Scenes
During the Christmas season, again this year, the inevitable nativity scenes will be set up in churches and also in some outdoor spaces in Cervia and its area.
The nativity scene is a very important symbol and therefore they are all made with great care and attention. Each nativity scene is, in fact, handcrafted and made of different materials, salt, wood, plaster.
These representations range from more classic to more innovative creations.
Programme
Nativity scene on the water
Viale Nazario Sauro, Cervia
Life-size, set up on an old Burchiella, on the canal port in front of the Magazzini del Sale.
Brilliant figures covered in salt, creating suggestive plays of light.
Artistic sculpted nativity scene
Viale Matteotti, Milano Marittima
30 November 2024 - 6 January 2025
The suggestive nativity consists of 7 figures 3 metres high.
Cervia Cathedral
Piazza Garibaldi 20, Cervia
8 December - 6 January
Visiting hours 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
The nativity scene is composed of mechanical parts that allow the statues to move thanks to a hundred small mechanisms. The statues are made of wood and plaster and then decorated by hand.
Church Madonna della Neve
Via delle Rose 38, Cervia
Visiting hours: 8 a.m. - 12 noon and 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Some parts are mechanical and each year varies with a different spiritual theme.
MUSA - Salt Museum
Viale Nazario Sauro 24, Cervia
Visiting hours:
Sundays and holidays 2.30 - 7 p.m.
21 December - 6 January every day from 2.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Ticket entrance € 2,00 , reduced € 1,00
Three different nativity scenes are set up inside the museum:
- Salt Crib
The scene consists of about fifteen figurines made with guided salt crystallisation in 1992 by Agostino Finchi. - Salt workers' nativity scene
The life-size statues of the Nativity in patinated terracotta were made in the 1980s by Paolo Onestini, a ceramist from Cervia. There are also figures of salt workers at work and figures of life in the salt works. - Mechanical nativity scene
An original nativity scene created by Mario Boselli depicting the places and characters of the town of Cervia.
Stella Maris Parish
Via III traversa, Milano Marittima
7 December 2024 - 6 January 2025
On the façade of the church, an artistic multimedia nativity scene with evocative multi-sensory animation reproducing images of scenes from the Nativity, the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi from Giotto to the present day. The scenographic installation was created based on a special artistic project, curated by the students of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Franciscan Friars of the Stella Maris Parish and the Pro Loco Milano Marittima.
Inside the church, a nativity scene depicts the Holy Family in an evocative atmosphere that invites reflection, realised in a simple but meticulous manner and with attention to detail, using mainly natural and local materials.
Pisignano
Car park Secondo Fusignani, via Crociarone, Pisignano
3 December 2024 - 12 January 2025
The scene is set on an old raft, inside a wooden hut wrapped in fishermen's nets and shells. The wood used was collected on the beach. In addition to the Nativity, there are many characters.
Sant'Antonio Church
Via G. Di Vittorio, Cervia
24 December 2024 - 7 January 2025
Nativity scene composed of several statues from the mechanical nativity scene originally displayed in the Suffragio church, which are made of wood and terracotta and dressed in cloth.