The new "Bethlehem City" will open this Friday, December 4, at the Municipal Exhibition Hall "Gregorio Cebrian", the event will take place from 20:00.
Municipal workers are already working since last October in the construction of "municipal Bethlehem", which is scheduled to open on 4 December at the Exhibition Hall "Gregorio Cebrian" within the program of festivities, according to sources of the Department of Celebration.
Workers of the Department of Services and Maintenance of the town are finalizing the work done in recent weeks on a platform that supports the work, whose area exceeds 90 square meters.
The realization of the Nativity has been carried out for over a month and a half so it can be open to the public to coincide with the official start of the festival of Santa Eulalia and remain so throughout Christmas.
The preparatory work for this staging has been directed by maestro Pedro Navarro Diaz belenista, which is renewed every year to be more attractive.
The same has employed more than 400 figures and scenes belenísticas fifteen.
To prepare this crib are used, among other materials, about 6,000 kilograms of land and many other stone and more than a hundred bolardas cork and many other materials.
This year has released the Egyptian port where entry is recreated boats across the Nile River to allow raw materials.
In addition, the crib becomes more monumental this year to raise nearly two meters also renovated the castle of Herod and expand the cave of Jesus' birth.
Bethlehem Municipal Elhorariodel be de18: 00 to 21:00, respectively;
Sundays and holidays from 12:00 to 14:00 hours and 18:00 to 21:00;
and special days deNochebuena and Eve, in the evenings from 18:00 to 20:00.
The premises of the Exhibition Hall will host the exhibition "Totana, art in clay" by the master Francisco Javier Carrillo belenista Periago and potter Francisco Javier Tudela.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana