Nativity Scene Museum
Torricella  Sicura (Teramo)
2010-2011 Edition

On 8 Dicember 2010 in Abruzzo's largest Nativity scene museum Torricella Sicura (Province of Teramo in Abruzzo Italy) celebrates the 6° annual Christmas presentation
Nativity Scene and Ethnographic Museum
«Le Genti della Laga» (People of the Laga area of Abruzzo)

Everyone is invited to visit this year's Holiday Season festivities at the Nativity scene and ethnographic museum “Le Genti della Laga.” The 2010 season grand opening takes , 8 December 2010 at 15:30 PM in front of the covered parking garage adjacent to Piazza Mario Capuani in the historical center of Torricella Sicura.
The energetic, passionate, and untiring Gino Di Benedetto and wife Fabrizia Di Girolamo, with the assistance of local artisans, have been working diligently all year long to present an even greater number of items of great historical importance. They have also toiled to greatly increase the number of Nativity Scenes that have been carefully gathering and presented in such a painstaking manner.
This year the exposition covers an area of about 700 square feet. In one third of the museum are displayed antiques, craftsmen tools, farm implements, and genuine household items of times past which have been gathered in and around the Torricella Sicura area of Abruzzo. A larger portion of the museum contains a vast assortment of faithfully reproduced 1:5 scale scenarios of rural activities in days past. Many of these displays are animated and show farmers actually working in the fields as well as tradesmen busily going about their business and crafting their wares.
This year's 2010 Exhibition (the fourth in as many years) is unique in many ways. Recently developed scenes depict the harvesting and threshing of grain using a water cooled machine placed in the fields and constructed exactly for this purpose. The visitor will watch in wonderment as the field hands intently go about their labors under the watchful eye of the landowner who supervises the operation from the seat of his nearby horse and carriage. In the full scale portion of the museum the visitor will gaze upon the kitchen, living room, and other areas of typical Italian households as they existed in the early years of the 1950's. These conveniences greatly changed and improved the lives of everyday people of the time. Interesting items include an early television set, a tube-type radio, a gas stove, and indoor lavatories. One whole section of the museum is dedicated to one of Torricella Sicura's most illustrative sons, the partisan martyr Mario Capuani. This young and most promising pediatrician was gunned down in the nearby village of Bosco Martese by German troops who sought to reprise the disappearance of one of their own during the closing days of WWII.

For reservations and more information contact the organizing secretary:

Fabrizia Di Girolamo cellphone: 338.3316641

Don't forget to visit our website and blog:
Website: www.cmgransasso.it/ginodibenedetto (In Italian)
Blog: www.presepelegentidellalaga.splinder.com (In Italian)

Warmest Regards

Dott. Stefano Ulissi