Via dei Presepi
Narrow pedestrian lane crowded with workshops molding terracotta nativity figures by hand.
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This guide to Via dei Presepi in Naples opens in 2021, with every nativity-figure workshop's shutters unlocked but almost no one buying, as the pandemic emptied the street of the tourists it depends on. You'll hear from Serena D'Alessandro, who led one workshop association, and Gabriele Casillo of the artisans' association, on how outside businesses began offering to buy up struggling workshops, and the fear that one closure could spread down the whole street. The guide follows a craft that families here have passed down for generations.
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