An attraction worthy of note, not to be missed during the Christmas period, is undoubtedly the mechanized nativity scene, which is set up every year thanks to the contribution of the “friends of the nativity scene” association. It occupies an area of about 70 square meters, on which a few hundred figures are placed, mostly mechanized thanks to electric motors.

The central theme is naturally that of the Nativity, but the ancient crafts that have always been present in the territory of Campo Ligure are also represented. The first figures of the crib were made at the end of the 19th century and in 1910 the nativity scene of the oratory saw the insertion of the first moving elements.

Initially the nativity scene was moved by a bicycle wheel turn by means of a crank; the moving statues were connected by means of chains to a single axis. With the passing of time, the nativity scene underwent several transformations and in 1976 Macciò proposed a great edition of the nativity scene in the atrium of the Oratory of Sebastian and Roch. From that moment, the number of statues increased significantly and the stage became more and more complex thanks to the collaboration of Macciò’s daughter, Professor Carla, and the ceramist painter De Vignola.