As part of the event “Sarnico Magic Christmas…a Christmas in Color”, from December 1^st 2024 to January 6^th 2025, at the former library in Piazzetta Freti in Sarnico, the Exhibition of Neapolitan Artistic Nativity Scenes curated by Antonio Mammato will be held.

You will be able to admire about twenty nativity scenes created not only by the organizer, but also by various Neapolitan nativity scene artists. Works created with the cork technique embellished with nativities and statues born from the creativity and skill of various Neapolitan masters.

Antonio Mammato, originally from the Amalfi Coast, moved to the Province of Bergamo about twenty-five years ago, has made a hobby and a passion his job, in fact he runs an exhibition laboratory dedicated to the Neapolitan nativity scene.

The classic Neapolitan nativity scene is a representation of the birth of Jesus traditionally set in eighteenth-century Naples. The art of Neapolitan nativity scenes has remained unchanged for centuries, becoming part of the most consolidated and followed Christmas traditions of the city and has been exported all over the world.

OPENING HOURS:
Sat: 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sun: 10:00 am -12:00 pm /3:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Open only on weekends.
Free admission.

Activity carried out with the contribution of the Lombardy Region and the patronage of the Province of Bergamo and the Bergamo Chamber of Commerce.