10/01/2025 - 12/01/2025 ore: 15:30 - 19:30
San Giovanni alla Vena, Via Roma 14, San Giovanni alla Vena
The ‘Angel’s nativity Scene Crib’, created by local artist Angelo Perini for the past 26 years, is made in an old cellar in San Giovanni alla Vena, near the cozy medieval village of Vicopisano.
It is the result of meticulous work, created in the niches of an old cellar, with wooden houses, small waterfalls, large and small earthenware figures and a thousand other details. Statuettes, waterfalls, angels, paintings, sculptures, music, poems, a journey through a thousand little lights to experience a very special atmosphere. Up to the Nativity, the lights dimming, the gentle sound of water mixing with the sounds of Christmas. In the other two rooms, numerous nativity scenes by Perini carved in wood, from the sea or from Monte Pisano, are on display.
The artist, in the trunks and olive logs, entirely carved by hand, has in fact carved true works of art linked to the territory: Brunelleschi’s Fortress, the Clock Tower and the Four Gates, the village of Tre Case, a glimpse of Egypt with the Pyramids and the Sphinx, Herod’s Castle, the Grotto of the Nativity. Connecting it all, a small road runs through the Nativity scene on a ‘journey’ of some 500 lights and over 300 figurines of different sizes. In the halls adjacent to the cellar, there are also various sculptures with animal figures and the imposing dragoness Saphira, then other sculptures such as the Christ, the Evolution Woman, the Pisan Warrior, the Ballerina, the Struggle between Good and Evil, The Scream and many others.