Mechanical Nativity Scene of the Rocca

After years of closure due to uninhabitability, the historic Mechanical Nativity Scene of the Rocca, set up at the Church of Carmine on the road to the Malaspina Castle in Massa, reopens.

Created thanks to three villagers from the village of Rocca, a hamlet at the foot of Massa's Malaspina Castle, in the early 1980s it was taken over by the young people of the village, who set up the crib structure in the Church of the Carmine, a 16th-century building and formerly the Convent of the Malaspina family; initially the structure was set up inside, only later was it placed in the hall above the Church itself, where it has its permanent seat.

A few numbers:

• 70 square meters of exhibition
• 5 stages of lights (day, sunset, night, night phase, dawn)
• 50 movements (of which 8 only in the Hut)

And then rain and snow, music and the vault of the sky, made of fiber optics by the Massese Astrophile Group and faithfully displaying the constellations of the Christmas season in our hemisphere.

Opening hours:

• weekdays
  from December 27 to January 4 (including January 1), 3.30-6 p.m.
• holidays
  December 25, 26 and 29, 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m. and 3.30-18 p.m. 
  January 5 and 6, 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m. and 3.30-6 p.m.