Regina men create individual Christmas Nativity and village scenes [Video]

Orazio Giannini has spent months individually hand crafting pieces for his Christmas Presepio, an Italian Nativity scene, which has been a long-standing family tradition.

“My dad used to build the Presepio. When we first came to Canada, he brought it back from when I was a child in Italy growing up. All of the pieces ended up to me,” he explained.

Giannini wanted to create a piece that truly depicts Bethlehem. He said it took over 240 hours and 10 weeks to create.

It fully came together in October.

“The buildings are made of Styrofoam, so putting the pieces together and then to actually make it look antique. The sausages with clay and drying them out with a string in between and making sure that each link is perfect. The figures are three and a half inches. Everything has to be to scale,” he explained.

He isn’t the only one with a creative eye and a …