Monumental Nativity Scene and Oratory of Sant'Antonio - Calvi dell'Umbria
The interior of this church, ancient seat of the St. Anthony’s Confraternity, hosts the monumental Christmas crib in itsbowl-shaped vault of the apse. The nativity scene is made of polychrome terracotta and including more than 30 statues, executed between 1541 and 1546 by the brothers Giacomo and Raffaele da Montereale from Abruzzo.
Two niches on the sides of the vault host the statues of St. Anthony Abbot and St. Rocco, patrons of the same confraternity and invoked against the plague. The current location of the Christmas crib is not the original one: , in order to allow for the execution of the back choir of the monastery, in the 1740s it was necessary to shorten this church, and the crib was disassembled and then relocated into the new apse on two levels, similar to its original location.