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Mom, where are the toys
sounds in a room of the convent of Santa Ana and San José de las Carmelitas descalzas. A
pen drive
powers the speaker. «My brother-in-law does the Christmas carol selection.
100 has chosen me
», warns
Pilar Tobar
, the designer, builder and owner of the Neapolitan nativity scene spread out on an island.
It is the first year that the fishbowl can be surrounded by Italian figurines engaged in various trades
. Look out into the alleys. Look under the arches. "I have been setting up the nativity scene here for 14 or 15 years", in Calle General Aranaz, 58 (Salvador).
Walk around its construction leading a
free tour
along the shore. Stops at the most successful script line. A farmer laden with eggs has stumbled.
«When I bought this figure I had very long legs. It is very good to throw it to the ground.
That one has the face of a painter. The fishermen is that they are fishermen. They have the face of half pirates ”, he reviews his creatures. We spent a while looking at the butcher's meat. "They look at the meat stall a lot."
He has a team of assistants made up of Josefina, Pedro and his sister Marina. They wet the moss, outline a path, whisper instructions. While Pilar, which is not the doyenne of
belenistas
Madrid for a month, talk behind the FPP2, serving the needs of the world of poliespán contained in the oval. At 87 years old, she is the most active. It is not very agile. It is that it drags the aftermath of an accident. «Assembling the crib, I was in a hurry, and I fell. You see? We have school. He went with the books. And when I got up [makes the gesture of entering the nativity scene], I fell backwards.
I broke three vertebrae. If you can't go so fast
.
Traveling to Naples was his favorite habit. «The first year I bought the nativity scene. Later, I was acquiring new pieces ». At the door of the bar there is a rowdy group of drunks. He laughs at their antics.
«I have bought almost all of them in Naples. King Carlos III was the first to bring here a nativity scene similar to this one »
, full of trades, with a different dress,« and since then it has been called Neapolitan ».
The children and her sister are in charge of transferring her from Moratalaz to the convent.
They began to assemble the nativity scene at the end of summer.
Maybe in September.
Yes, yes, it was in September.
We were coming for two days.
We were leaving.
We did it little by little.
Before the fall we always came ».
Every year the design changes.
«It is done all over again.
I have no previous project, I am testing, we are testing
.
I can get to have an idea in the head but nothing definitive ».
Attentive to that fresco
Pilar assembles the figures, builds the houses and orders the town that supports the birth. «First I acquire the head, the legs, the hands. Then the body is made. You go on painting them », he holds a bust,« when they are ready, you put on the dresses ». In the buildings there are details like a fresco. Or the portrait of a girl, an ordinary girl.
"Somewhere there is the image of Blessed Sagrario, the first pharmacist woman
," her husband's ancestor. They killed her in the Civil War. His image must be there ”.
Before specializing in the jungle of the daily life of the Neapolitan nativity scene, Pilar exhibited nativity scenes from all over the world.
«I have from all countries.
Especially from South America, from North America ”, he resolves.
"I have them stored at home in showcases", the hundreds of pieces accumulated throughout my life.
"I have liked them since I was born."
The family moved from Burgos to Atocha.
Pilar, "single," worked as a calculator for optical projects at Artillerías.
When she got married, she was the director of a travel agency.
"I remember being with my father painting Herod's house on his knees."
-This year I have put a nativity scene from La Palma in the agency.
I've been making banana trees.
Not many visitors come to the convent.
«Because it is not a transit area.
Here you have to come on purpose.
Write that we are until January 9. ».
And young people do not pay attention to the recreation of manners universes around the birth of Christ.
“When they retire, people can dedicate themselves to this fully.
Among the young people there is a hobby but not much.
There could be more
.
Pilar, as a very tender god, cannot keep any scene.
"I like everything.
I do not know what to tell you".
DNA
C / General Aranaz, 58 l It will be on display until next January 9 l Pilar collects nativity scenes from the world l She has belonged to the Madrid nativity scene association for 20 years l It takes four months to assemble it l Every year she designs a new version
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