Today we offer readers a few more views of the wonderful presepe figures available at the annual Christmas fair at Piazza Navona. Though here at the Eternally Cool compound we’re partial to the Roman soliders (see above) and those delightful sheep that are accompanying them through the countryside (also above), this year we’ve gone all-Italian in our acquisitions and have plundered the presepe-selling stalls in search of pasta-easters and wine merchants to add to our ever-growing collection.
That said, it was hard to pass up the line-up of swooning kings and devoted Virgins (see above) - though, really, how many kings can one add to a nativity scene. And, the passionate bagpipe players and pirouetting shepherds clad in form-fitting fur pants were also calling our names (see below), though we’ve managed to resist their pleas for a new home thus far.
