November 07 2008
A crib of wood rags and wax … …
Cesenatico organises a Crib that is single in the world: there are no caves or huts with the paths covered with musk, the snow-clad tops and the fleecy clouds to the pasture to be done at background to the Nativity, but Fishing boats, It Beat, Lances, Trabaccoli, Trawlers and Barchèt, the ancient ones and coloratissime typical boats of the Adriatic one.
In the romantic frame of the port Leonardesque canal the ancient boats of the Museum of the Navy accomodate the Sacred Family, the Kings Magi and all the other personages.
Here, received at three dolphins sculptured in the wood, the night of Christmas, the Child will be born.
To do at background there is the city with the striking foreshortening of the ancient Preserves and stained houses that look at themselves in the water of the port canal.
The Crib, started in 1986, is a work of the artists Maurizio Bertoni and I mine Savadori on project of Tinin Mantegazza and an idea of Guerrino Gardini.
The first statue, after the sacred Family and the Kings Magi has been that one of S. Giacomo, Defence of Cesenatico.
During the years if there it are other additions that represent several personages and moments of life of the local navy: the puppeteer with his toy theatre, the fishermen, the piadinaia, the player of accordion, the angels.
The faces, the hands, the feet and all the shown parts of the statues are sculptured in cirmolo wood. The suits are realised in cloth and the voluminous draperies (modeled on a tangled metal net), are obtained thanks to a layer of wax painted to heat.
The colours are those with whom the sails were dyed and the wax is that one that was serving to soften the shrouds.
The result is of great effect and is made even more striking by the lights that wrap the boats.
The inauguration of the Crib of the Navy will take place on Sunday on November 30 to the hours 17,00 and the lighting of the lights will be preceded by a great show with games of fire created by the company “Lumen I invoke”.
In the holiday days of December and January, in occasion of the Crib of the Navy the Italian Posts prepare a special philatelic cancellation.
To see also the Crib of the Preserves (from December 14 2008 until January 6 2009), more traditional and placed in the striking piazzetta where there can be admired the ancient Preserves (or iceboxes) what filled with ice or snow, had the function of keeping the fish.
Close to the expositive halls of the section to land of the Museum of the Navy from November 30 2008 until January 6 2009, an exhibition will be organised whose conductive thread, as always, it will be the sea.
“Watercolours of marine” of Emanuela Tenti.
For the whole Christmas period, besides, long the Port canal and in the historical centre musical shows will be organised, moments of animation, the traditional Christmas small market every Sunday of December on the port canal, and on December 31 rendezvous not to be lacked with “New Year's Day on the Port Canal”, with musical show of Dino Gnassi Corporation Band and show of fires of artifice to celebrate together the arrival of the new year.
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