OTS - Matera plays host to 'Living Nativity Scenes' / Nine performances during festive season
2024. January 03. 16:45
Matera, 3 January, 2024 (APA/OTS) - The 'Living Nativity Scenes'
Festival in Matera's rock-cut Sassi districts is even more special
this year, featuring a dozen caves lit from below in the Murgia
plateau in the Park of the Rupestrian Churches.
The soft lighting is powered by the sun, explained Luca Prisco,
the director of the Matera Convention Bureau, at a press conference
that Mayor Domenico Bernardi and Park Agency President Giovanni
Mianulli also took part in.
This new lighting follows the approval of the Basilicata
regional government's Environmental Incidence Assessment (VINCA).
The festival started with a performance on December 8, one of
nine taking place up to January 6, 2024.
One of the highlights was the December 9 show, which coincided
with the 30th anniversary of the Sassi and the Park of the
Rupestrian Churches of Matera being admitted to UNESCO's list of
World Heritage Sites.
That night featured the ceremony for the twinning of Matera
with Greccio, in the province of Rieti, which for 800 years has
been continuing the tradition of staging nativity scenes that was
started by Saint Francis of Assisi.
A 'videomapping' show in Piazza San Pietro Caveoso recreated
the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Pope Honorius III.
The Living Nativity Scene, directed by theatre director
Giampiero Francese, stretched out over a four kilometre course,
starting from the city centre and going through the Sasso Barisano
and the Sasso Caveoso and featured 200 professional actors, extras
and members of theatre companies from various regions.
Organizers said 400 bus-loads of visitors had booked.
Press contact:
Serafino Paternoster
Head, Press office APT Basilicata
+3384299742
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