Authentic miniature Nativity Scenes, perpetuate the birth of Christ throughout the year. The central theme is the cave that houses the Holy Family, all the other elements of biblical or everyday scenes are organized around it, through small figures of painted pottery, fragments of rock, moss, plants, flowers and tiny sea shells . Within domes or glass boxes, the beautiful and fragile “Lapinha” Nativity Scenes are a tradition in the Azorean homes.