San Gregorio Armeno

San Gregorio Armeno is the worldwide known street in Naples for presepi, the nativity scenes that represent the birth of Jesus Christ with lots of handmade puppets called pastori. This year I went after many time to San Gregorio and I was surprised to see a couple of things: prices went really down and people seemed to be more interested in buying lots of pastori at very valuable rates; I also realized how the stalls were full ofpastori representing celebs from all over the world, much more than the usual ones reproducing the christian figures: there were more Pope, President Bush, Osama Bin Laden and Angelina Jolie than Father Joseph and Mother Mary. As a neapolitan this is no surprise because I know that the artisans do this to catch the attention of the media, but I wonder if they are going to forget Jesus child next year!