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| Jos Ballesta inaugurates today, at 5:30 p.m., the exhibition 'Traditional Murcian Nativity scenes', composed of large format photographs | The mayor of Murcia, Jos Ballesta, together with the councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jes s Pacheco, the mayor of Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, Jos Guill n, and the councilor of Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernab , opens today, at 5:30 p.m., the exhibition 'Traditional Murcian Nativity scenes', composed of twenty large-format photographs by the artist Joaqu n Zamora and located in the pedestrian axis of Alfonso X El Sabio. “Murcia is the cradle of the Bel n.

This exhibition promotes a tradition that is lived in so many Murcian homes, with a series of photographs that transmit the essence of the traditional nativity scenes of our land, such as that of Salzillo and that of Jes s Griñ n, among other artisans, through the eyes of the photographer Joaqu n Zamora ”, has advanced Jos Ballesta. The exhibition is located in the first section of Alfonso X, starting from the Plaza de Santo Domingo, and will remain on the promenade from today until January 6. List of photographed nativity scenes The traditional Murcian nativity scenes that appear in the photographs are the following: -Bel n de Ant n Garre, from Alquer as. -Belón by Juan Antonio Garre, from Alquer as. -Belón de la Peña La Pava, San Juan de Dios. -Bel n by Francisco Salzillo, from the Salzillo Museum. -Belon of the Prometheus Foundation, of the Regional Center of Crafts. -Bel n de Manuel Griñ n L pez, Regional Handicraft Center. -Belón de Mercedes Serrano Matas, Regional Center for Crafts. -Belón de Jes s Griñan, from Nativity Scene Murcia. -Bel n de Begoña Aroca, from Artesan a Gal ny of the Centro Regional de Artesan a. -Municipal Belon of the Murcia City Council. -Belón de los Maestros Artesanos, from the Regional Center of Crafts. It should be noted that the opening text of the exhibition, displayed on a canvas, begins with the following sentence: 'We are already at Christmas or Easter, as we say in Murcia.

You can already smell the toasted sugar and cinnamon from the dough of the cordial, mantecado or cake de recao.

The guitars, guitars and tambourines are already playing by the aguilando gangs and in the homes, Christmas carols and the Murcian, Neapolitan, Hebrew or fried egg nativity scene.

' In this way, he continues: 'Murcia at the end of the 19th century prepared every year to celebrate Christmas, waiting for the great day of Christmas Eve, for the installation of nativity scenes in homes and religious spaces, the singing of the joyous masses, the rooster, the making of the popular Easter cakes or the gathering of cascaruja, turkey, turr n and pine nuts. 'This Christmas, you show us your Nativity' In addition, among the activities of the Murcia Christmas programming, the contest 'This Christmas, you teach us your Bel n' is included, with which the City Council raffles an artisan birth. To participate, the steps to follow are: Share a video on Twitter or Instagram, with the hashtag # EnseñaBelenMurcia2020, and tag the Murcia City Council in the publications.

The contest is open until December 25.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia