The Parque del Drago is the setting chosen by the Icod de los Vinos City Council to create a life-size nativity scene. It is a natural environment that “offers a genuine sample of thermophilic forest with plants typical of our biodiversity,” said Verónica. Gonzalezcouncilor of the Icodtesa company.
The representation of the birth, whose figures were designed on a real scale, is the work of a team of Icodense artists composed of Alberto Miranda, Lorena Piedra and Daniel Lima. It can be visited until January 6 from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
“The figures were designed and decorated in an artisan process that began in May,” said Alberto Miranda, creative director of the assembly, who highlighted that “all the elements used were designed and made specifically for this nativity scene, including the mule and the ox, which attract attention due to its characteristics.
Yesterday, the nativity scene in the lobby of the Los Realejos Town Hall was also inaugurated, the work of royal image maker Jorge González González, who created and modeled in his workshop the eight clay and wood dress figures that star in the composition, set in a Neapolitan setting. It can be visited until January 12 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; and on Saturdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., except holidays.
The image maker incorporated Saint Francis into his own nativity scene, commemorating the 800th anniversary of the living nativity scene that he organized in 1223 in the Greccio Caves (near Assisi).
