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# Wooden Nativity Scene from Sutrio Installed in Saint Peter's Square
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-etom-godu-rozhdestvenskii-vertep-dlia-ploshchadi-sviatogo-petra-v-vatikane-sozdan-v-severo-italianskoi-derevne-sutrio-provintsii-udine/
- Published: 2022-12-05T13:02:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:59:23.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art, Rome, Ethnography

This year's Christmas crib for Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican was made in the northern Italian village of Sutrio, in the province of Udine. All the figures are made entirely of wood, and the hemisphere above them symbolises the grotto in which the Holy Family found shelter. This time a realistic style has been chosen, unlike last year, when sculptures of a most unfamiliar appearance from Peru were installed in the square