And he was born in a manger

 

All the team of the Snop House Senglea wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

2020 has deprived us, since mid-March, of the welcoming with many travellers who were unable to visit Malta due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But we were rewarded with the TripAdvisor Award 2020 Traveler’s choice which gives us hope to welcome many of you in 2021 .

Maltese Christmas would not be the same without the traditional presepju (crib) and pasturi (nativity figures). Cribs are positively everywhere, from private houses, garages, small chapels to large churches. The popular family crib (‘presepju tal- familja’) is made with simple materials such as, thin wood base, chicken wire to hold the structure and covered with ‘paper mache’, made with flour glue. The sizes of Christmas Cribs vary from ‘shoe box’ size all the way to life-sized nativity scenes that can span a whole village square. The second one has become a popular attraction, and more villages are hosting their own Presepju Haj (Live Nativity Scene). More than 10 years ago, the village of Ghajnsielem in Gozo started their own tradition. In 2008 number of abandoned fields were converted into a Nativity village.