This year, Lakesiders will have two opportunities to take in an assortment of charming live creche scenes.
The south end of Chapala’s Avenida Madero will be closed to traffic late Thursday, December 23, for a showing of Nacimientos en Vivo outside the San Francisco parish church. The presentation of ten or more different scenes is scheduled for public viewing between 8 and 9 p.m.
Ajijic’s San Andres parish is reviving its long-standing Christmas Eve exhibition of live tableaux, depicting the Holy Family in distinctive settings representing various ethnic cultures of Mexico groups and nationalities from around the world. Many of the scenes will showcase real infants warmingly bundled up for the part of the newborn Messiah, as well as live farm animals or alternately adorable toddlers dressed up to play those roles. The December 24 display will run from 5:45 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A number of local households warmly open their doors to visitors curious to take a close-up look at their colorful creations. To see a true masterpiece, stop in most any evening at the home of Hector Hinojosa, Guadalupe Victoria 9, opposite the north side of the San Andres Church atrium.
Other attractive nacimientos worth a look include the display made with dried cornhusks just outside Chapala’s main church, the handsome wrought iron Holy Family set up in the bandstand of Ajijic’s plaza, and large ceramic figurines on exhibit in the atrium at San Antonio Tlayacapan and the center of Santa Cruz de la Soledad.
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