He La Laguna City Council, through the Department of Culture, and the Association of Nativity Scene Makers of La Laguna, presented this past week the official poster and the agenda of events that will make up a new edition of the Nativity Scene Contest. This initiative is aimed at promoting this tradition and making it an essential event in the population’s Christmas cultural agenda.
The first deputy mayor and councilor for Sports and Citizen Participation, Badel Albelo, wanted to highlight “the admirable work carried out by this non-profit entity” and recalled the commitment of the City Council to the preservation of this tradition of the municipality.
The president of the La Laguna Association of Nativity Scene Makers, Alfonso Castilla, explained that the poster has been made by the artist Juan Cairós, born in Valle de Guerra, who has been inspired “by the very essence of nativity scenes and the representation of the arrival to “Bethlehem of San José and the Virgin Mary, with the framework of the city of La Laguna in the background.”
Likewise, Castilla indicated that a new route meter of the La Laguna nativity scenes has been designed, which will be shared through the City Council’s official channels in the near future, which will include different visits to the nativity scenes displayed in the six districts of the municipality.
The itinerary includes the work of dozens of people who, through the Association of Nativity Scene Makers, have been the creators of these pieces of local art and have registered so that they can be visited. It will be next December 16, in the Plaza del Hermano Ramón, when the jury will reveal the awards of this contest.
