DECEMBER 8th (AN IMPORTANT DAY)

In Italy, Christmas officially begins on December 8th, the day of the "Immaculate Conception". It is tradition to put up the Christmas tree and prepare the "nativity scene". The crib corresponds to the most famous: Naples and Greccio. Naples means "the cradle of Christmas" it was there in southern Italy where the first representation of the birth of the baby Jesus was made in the fifteenth century.

That first “nativity scene” created with clay figures marked history forever, because it marked the beginning of a tradition that other countries and artists around the world would soon join. In Greccio, Italian tradition says that “San Francisco de Asís” set up the first "nativity scene" in history, in the year 1223 where three years before his death, Francis prepared to celebrate the birth of the child Jesus, in order to excite the devotion of the faithful.

Santa Claus is known in Italy as Babbo Natale and he brings gifts to all bambinos on December 24. The figure of the Befana ends the Christmas season on January 6. She hands out candy to the kids who have been good (and coal to the bad ones). Despite this, she does not have a positive image, as the parties kill her.




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