CANARY BETHLEHEM SAN JUAN DE DIOS. Front
traditional nativity set in first century Palestine, we present a montage, where the birth of Christ, is located in the Gran Canaria nineteenth century, collecting the traditions and customs of this island and the traditional dress the same, with its most genuine as blankets, puppy monteras, camisuelas, etc.
traditional nativity set in first century Palestine, we present a montage, where the birth of Christ, is located in the Gran Canaria nineteenth century, collecting the traditions and customs of this island and the traditional dress the same, with its most genuine as blankets, puppy monteras, camisuelas, etc.
In the shadow of Nublo, there are crafts that made up the daily work of the past, and in many cases, have become symbols of the collective imagination of the peoples of the island, having been developed more or less extensive in a given area, usually conditioned by the environ-mental environment and the existence and dependence on raw materials.
Each municipality is represented by a symbol, either obtained directly from nature or manufactured. Thus, bread is a reference Agüimes as apples can be Valleseco. Sighs and biscuits Moya, identify its inhabitants as the sausages are related to Teror, or potters Watchtower St. Brigid, and by extension representing the pottery centers throughout the island
The picareta of Arucas quarries, resonate with his devastate the stones, while "naive" Gáldar, cheese cut flower guide, and the sandy beaches of Gran Canaria, at the foot of the Child, used for fishing villages as Agaete, Las Palmas or Mogan, hustles on the coast, and roncotes and carpenters, we can show their crafts, while the music-so linked in our island for Christmas, "is represented a musician who brightens the streets with his violin, an instrument that was part of any spree worth his salt, which has gone missing from popular music.
Sales of oil and vinegar, were for generations and generations, a meeting, leisure, play, and served as a catapult gossip and gossip, and there were traded and sold the products of the earth, and those from overseas, so I could not miss this tribute to those premises, and this form of trade, and almost disappeared in our island island crossed by peddlers, herbalists, crossing himself, or ministers, exemplifying occupations and lifestyles have been part of our culture, and have passed the memory, as has happened to remember our traditional home, the habitat in caves, or simple dry stone houses, tiled roofs.
All these symbols of the island are offered at the Sacred Mystery of the Nativity, as a rich present, so full of meaning: as gold, frankincense, and myrrh, offered by the Magi.
Jose Maria Mesa Martin
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