On Friday, December 8, at 6 p.m., the lights of the cultural centre will be switched on, a 35 square meters handmade nativity scene will be opened to the public and there will be live music.
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The Consell de Mallorca inaugurates Christmas
The Consell de Mallorca inaugurates Christmas at the Misericòrdia with a new Christmas exhibition and the reopening of the cistern. On Friday, December 8, at 6 pm, the lights of the cultural centre will be switched on, and for the first time will have a luminous tree three meters high, and the exhibition rooms will be opened with a 35 square meters Mallorcan handmade nativity scene, 11 dioramas and neules. In addition, the day will also feature live music with the interpretation of Christmas carols by the Pollença choir.
The event will take place in the Pati de les Rentadores of the Centre Cultural la Misericòrdia, which is where the exhibition halls and the cistern are located. The great Mallorcan nativity scene that will be inaugurated has 250 handmade figures: handmade, made of clay, and painted one by one. It can be visited from December 8, 2023 to January 5, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. each day.
This proposal, which also features an exhibition of dioramas and neules, has been carried out in collaboration with the Association of Betlemistes de Mallorca. You can enjoy traditional scenes of Christmas traditions in places of Mallorca, such as Cala Deiá, the cloister of Montision de Porreres or unique buildings of Palma as Ca’n Oms.
It should be noted that these three exhibitions will be accompanied by two audiovisual projections of the Wilma Group that guards the Arxiu del So i de la Imatge of the Consell de Mallorca. First of all, there will be a short documentary of the 1979 handmade manufacture of the figures and the assembly of a Mallorcan nativity scene by Ramon Ripoll Vanrell “Puça”. The betlemista collects from nature the elements with which he makes the crib: mud from the earth and vegetation of the forest. Then, visitors can also enjoy a second short film from 1984 that shows the homemade elaboration of the almond nougat cake: it follows the whole process of nougat production from the almond tree to its consumption at the Christmas table.