VATICAN CHRISTMAS: The Vatican illuminated this year's Christmas tree and unveiled the nativity scene for the holiday season on Saturday (12/7). The 95-foot-tall red spruce hails from a forest in ...

Beneath the tree, a nativity scene measuring 36-by-100 feet stands on an artificial lagoon meant to resemble the small Italian seaport town of Grado, often referred to as little Venice ...

They eventually branched off to illustrate children's books and design Christmas ... Duo Crafts Exquisite Nativity Scenes Then in 2011, the couple saw a Presepio (the Italian word for Nativity ...

Sculpting figurines for nativity scenes is a craft that dates back hundreds of years in the city of Naples. While some artisans want to preserve the traditional characters such as Mary ...

It's that time of year once more: time to don the holiday sweaters, pour a hot chocolate, gather the family and stare at a computer screen scrolling through the best viral nativity scenes the ...

The figurine of the late Queen Elizabeth has become this year the most prized to adorn the traditional Nativity Scene in the Italian city ... a couple of weeks before Christmas, becomes Italy's ...

On Christmas Eve in 1223, in cave near the cliffside village of Greccio in Italy, St Francis of Assisi created what's thought to be the first nativity scene. It was staged for the local villagers ...

No proper Christmas celebration is complete without a nativity scene that shows Jesus Christ ... in 1223 by Saint Francis of Assisi, an Italian friar who set up a manger with hay and two barn ...