When Christmas met the crib

There is a place...

...in Italy, between Umbria and Lazio, called Greccio, where "Christmas" was born.

Walking from north, up to a large green saddle,



among cows

and horses

(I'm sorry! I haven't seen any donkey...),

and then going down through the wood

you can arrive in a place perched on the face over the Reatina Valley,



 where St. Francis came many times
(here is his bed)



 and where above all, in the Christmas of 1223, remembering the night of Betlem,



 he invented the crib... the Christmas that we know.

Here you can see the old dormitory



and the church also.



This is Greccio... another suggestion for walk in Italy.