San Gregorio Armeno

Nothing great here. It maybe because we went in Feb and there is not much action at this place. Not sure if the Christmas experience is better here.

We love European Christmas markets, so when we had the opportunity to visit San Gregorio Armeno, we jumped at the chance. For those that don’t know, a nativity is the centrepiece of an Napoli Christmas celebration and boy are they intricate.
These aren’t those typical boxsets you might pick up from Target, instead typically a scene is made up of an intricate background piece which can be anywhere up to four feet high and include running water and places across multiple levels for figures.
First off, these background pieces aren’t nearly as expensive as you might think… or it could have been that we visited the week before Christmas and so they knocked them all down because they’d have expected the locals to already have one by that point.
But the street doesn’t just have those, but shops and shops and shops of stores that sell the figures too. And the week before Christmas, it is busy. But pleasantly so because everyone was in the Christmas spirit except for the one weird shop that charged entrance. But that was an oddity.