The traditions are preserved and perpetuated. Nativity scenes are one of these traditions during the Christmas season.
On Monday, the Department of Alpes-Maritimes installed its Nativity scene from Lucรฉram, a village where the Nativity scene circuit has been organized every year for the past 17 years by the Maison de Pays de Lucรฉram.
It will be set up throughout December in the entrance hall of the Department’s headquarters.
Lucรฉram, a fortified village perched on a rocky spur overlooking the Paillon valley, 27 km north of Nice and home to about a thousand inhabitants, is one of the best-preserved medieval towns in the Alpes-Maritimes, with its ramparts, its tower “open to the throat,” its vaulted passages, its ogival windows, its stairways, fountains, and washhouses.
Since Christmas 1998, the “Maison de Pays de Lucรฉram et du Haut Paillon” has organized, in December and January, in collaboration with local associations and residents, a Nativity scene circuit in the village: 300 Nativity scenes are displayed in the streets, on balconies, on fountains, window sills, in the nooks of facades, in chapels, and in the “Musรฉe de la crรจche,” a museum created and managed by volunteers.
