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How Cinque Terre's Stunning Nativity Display Is Honoring Healthcare Workers This Year Cailey Rizzo One of the world’s largest nativity scenes added a new, very timely figure this year. Every year, the coastal hill in Manarola, in Italy’s Cinque Terre, is a festive spot with almost five miles of stringed lights and over 100 statues portraying the baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, along with shepherds, angels, fishermen, sheep, camels, and angels. In an ode to frontline workers that have helped so many amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a statue of a medic wearing a face shield has als...

Nativity scene lights up Italy's Cinque Terre coast Issued on: 2 min Manarola (Italy) (AFP) One of the world's largest nativity scenes lights up the hilltop town of Manarola in Italy's famed Cinque Terre, joined this year by a statue honouring medics who battle coronavirus. More than 150 figures depict shepherds and fishermen, sheep, camels and angels gathered around Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. Lit up with eight kilometres of electricity cables, they are visible from the sea as well. A new addition this year is a statue of a nurse with a heart next to it, a tribute to the medics workin...

The nativity set is alive and well, whatever you think of the Vatican’s Dec 13, 2020 editor A doctor and a nurse holding the Italian peninsula are popular items in 2020 nativity sets in Naples shops. (Credit: Image courtesy fanpage.it.) If the Vatican isn’t actually where the action is in terms of the presepe, maybe we shouldn’t make such a fuss over whatever it chooses to put up every year. News Analysis ROME – For more than twenty years, no matter where travels may take me the rest of the year, I’ve always made a point of being in Rome for Christmas and New Year’s. You’d think...