#belenes

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NAVIDAD / NAVIDOG 2024 ⛄️🎄🧑🏻‍🎄🎅🏻

Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz navidad próspero año y felicidad 🎼🥁🪇

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The Unending Evolution of Nativity Scenes

From 3rd-century depictions to a Star Trek nativity, the art form never ceases to evolve. 

La interminable evolución de los belenes (vía Hyperallergic).

The Unending Evolution of Nativity Scenes

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Feliz Navidad. Ya tenemos belen. #belenes #belendenavidad #merrychristmas🎄 #merrychristmas #navidad #nadal #belenes (en Vigo, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW6cZj3MJHU/?utm_medium=tumblr

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El belén mucho mejorado ha

Y pocas personas darse cuenta han

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Since I spent a good chunk of the morning taking these photos for my dad (he wants to store them to make a catalogue or something), I might as well share them here. I present you the family bussiness:

Mom doesn’t cut the pieces anymore (she’s sworn off from using a saw ever again), but she’s the one that decorates them. Also, when I say this is the family bussiness, I mean my dad worked on it, mum and her sisters do now, and some of dad’s uncles and aunts still create their own pieces too. All those from the photos are for one of his aunts, who has a stand close to the Sagrada Familia.

As a bonus, a piece my father made years and years ago but still survives (image from last year):

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Este es el Belén (nacimiento/pesebre) del Centro de Artesanía de la Comunidad Valenciana, en Valencia, España, elaborado con la participación de la Asociación de Belenistas de Valencia. Ocupa una superficie de más de cinco metros de largo. La escena --titulada Cabalgata de Reyes-- está compuesta por 60 figuras de 31 centímetros de altura, creadas por el artesano valenciano Enrique Villagrasa.

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Hi! I cant figure out what the tiny caves are, but I've only just woke up and I might be a lot hungover, are they thing to go in fish tanks??? Which was the only thing I could think of.

Hi there anon! Your guess, while amusing, is sadly not correct XD 

The caves aren’t so tiny in real life (images make them look much smaller than they really are). Those are for nativity scenes, usually for putting the figures of Joseph, Mary and Jesus (and the ox and the mule  too!) inside. It’s quite the tradition here in all of Spain. But honestly, you can use them for whatever you want! Geting them into a fish tank might be tricky tho, and the moss and glues used to craft them will probably fuck up the water…