Francisco Salzillo, the outstanding Spanish sculptor of the eighteenth century, made a nativity of 556 figures for a Murcian family between 1776 and 1800 — not a devotional abstraction but a populated Murcian landscape, with shepherds, inns, markets and musicians in contemporary dress, each figure around thirty centimetres and individually modelled.
It is displayed each winter in the Museo Salzillo, which also holds the pasos he carved for the city's Holy Week.
No attendance figure is recorded here in this pass.
This is a museum display on a long season rather than a street festival, which is the distinction a listing should make: it runs from late November into February and is ticketed and indoors.
Murcia itself runs a large belenista tradition with dozens of other nativities across the city each December.
PlanningA long museum season from late November into February — a permanent collection, displayed seasonally.