Historic Italian village credited for first-of-its-kind Christmas Nativity scene draws crowds for 800 years
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Each year Greccio, Italy, re-enacts a living nativity scene paying homage to Saint Francis of Assisi who is credited with starting the exhibition that represents the birth of Jesus.
Saint Francis visited Greccio after his journey to Palestine and wanted to depict the Nativity in a cave, asking for a manger to be built with an ox and a donkey, according to a local tourist association, the Pro Loco Greccio’s site.
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