My Favorite Nativity Sets
I am not typically focused during my travels on picking a particular item from every place I go. (OK, maybe a beer glass but I am not consistent with that one…) But if an item really catches my eye in a certain category, I do buy it. Nativity scenes (“pesebres” in Spanish) is one of those categories. I especially like the ones from Andean countries which you will see below. Here are my favorite ones with special emphasis on one of them.
Now to a series of pictures from a nativity scene from Panama.
Here is hoping to many more still to be discovered and happy new year to all!!!
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Read some about the trips when I acquired the Nativity sets:
Poland: Visiting Krakow, Czestochowa, the Wieliczka salt mines, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Wadowice.
Chile: Santiago, Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, the Atacama Desert, Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Valley of the Moon, and the Tatio Geysers.
Peru: Lima, Huaraz and Ancash, Puno, Cuzco, and Lake Titicaca.
Panama: Panama, Panama City
What a nice collection. Pesebres are pretty but the meaning of it is what makes them beautiful. Of those posted, my favorite one is Peru, different.
Comment by Luly | 1 January 2013
What a beautiful collection of Nativities and loved your presentation of them–allowing your readers to travel around the world to experience different cultures. I think my favorite is from Poland but the glass Nativity at the top is exquisite!
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Comment by Jeff Titelius | 2 January 2013
Thanks, Jeff! I enjoy displaying them at Christmas time and hate they are boxed up the rest of the year! Good thing is that for me Christmas ends on Jan 6th not earlier
Comment by Raul | 2 January 2013
Thanks for checking them out, Luly. Yes, the Peru one is quite unique – that’s why I HAD to get it
Comment by Raul | 2 January 2013
Dear Sir,
I’m a collector of nativity world from Italy. I’m interesting to have a nativity from Panamà. Could you tell me some informationn to buy it? I visited your page and I like it.
I wait your news,
thank you
best regards
Carlo Castellini
Comment by Carlo Castellini | 18 March 2013