Every year since the early 90s for one night the residents of the old part of Arcos de la Frontera put on an amazing performance of a live nativity scene “belen viviente.” Through an incredible display of craftsmanship and cooperation the residents recreate scenes and aspects of life around the time Jesus was born. Being completely free to enter the other thing you must give is your patience because of the time you’ll have to wait, we waited around an hour and a half. It was truly magnificent and surreal; wandering through the old streets of arcos in combination with the performance made us feel as we were looking into a windows of the past. This is what we saw:
