Belen scenes for sale - Seville |
Waiting in line to see Store-Window-Belen |
"Belen" is a new word for us. It refers to displays of the birth-of-Jesus. We've always used the French word "creche", in Mexico we saw the "nacimiento". Here in Spain it is a "belen". Each church has one on display in scales of 1/2 or 1/3...in one case a 1:1 scale! In the square in front of the grand Seville cathedral there is a public square dedicated to extensive booths selling figures and props for home belen. In Madrid many stalls sell live green moss, which gives the belen a northern european green lushness out of place with the landscape of Bethlehem or - for that matter --southern Spain.
Modern interpretation of the Christ Story |
Peter
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