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Councilman Celebrations, D. Francisco Méndez and the pastor of the municipality, D. Manuel Peñalver, inaugurated yesterday the municipal Bethlehem has over 700 figures and has been awarded five times by the Association of Bethlehem in the Region of Murcia .
This year, they have added new offices dedicated to businesses florist, butchers and sale of fabrics, and a typical spa Mar Menor and a replica of the old Paseo de la Feria, which bind to the five hundred existing figures, all them works of famous sculptor Manuel Nicolas Almansa, continued the work housed.
The figures modeled by him are extremely expressive, and are considered prototypes of Murcia barroquismo
Almansa, has exhibited his work throughout Spain.
The cribs of this sculptor are in collections of Honduras, Venezuela, England or France.
And in the Madrid Museum of Decorative Arts and Pueblo Spanish in Barcelona, ​​as, in the Vatican Museum, in the section of the figures of Bethlehem.
Among the awards he has highlights: Silver Medal of Social Work Crafts, Craftsman Distinguished Gold Medal of the National Work of Arts and Laurel of Murcia in 1973.
The Stable of 70 square meters is located in the Paseo de la Feria of the municipality and hides in his figures to "Mariana, frog laughing with wins" that children must find to enter a prize draw.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Los Alcázares
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