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Italians and their nativity scenes – something to behold, they say (she sighed) – here’s an interesting Slow Travel thread on what people are seeing around Italy these days<\/a> and here’s a post from a wonderful blog by an American woman living in Rome on the tradition in general as well as on her Presepe-related visit to Naples.<\/a><\/p>\n

Take a look, too, at the famed sand presepe in Jesolo<\/a>, which is sculpted every year<\/a> with proceeds that go to a particular cause – this year it’s for a center dedicated to rescuing child soldiers in Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italians and their nativity scenes – something to behold, they say (she sighed) – here’s an interesting Slow Travel thread on what people are seeing around Italy these days and here’s a post from a wonderful blog by an American woman living in Rome on the tradition in general as well as on her Presepe-related…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nPresepe! - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/12\/presepe.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presepe! 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