On Christmas holidays many Umbrian towns offer concerts in their churches and theatres.
Starting from the 8th of December, Paciano hosts the “Soul Christmas 2009”- Umbria Gospel Festival in the Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta. This musical event will performed also in other Umbrian cities as Tuoro sul Trasimeno (25th December), Città della Pieve (26th December), Magione (27th December), Pietrafitta (28th December), Panicale (29th December), Passignano sul Trasimeno (30th December) and Castiglione del Lago (31st of December).

The Nativity Scene is an Italian tradition to celebrate the Jesus birth. Usually, every Italian family prepare his own nativity scene in his house on the 8^th of December, the day of The Immaculate Conception.

The nativity scene is often placed near the Christmas tree and it always includes the manger with Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Joseph, the ox and the burro. Other nativity scenes also include a rich scenery of shepherds and other characters, animals and sheeps, wells and trees: a real enchanting setting!

A lot of Italian towns prepare their streets, churches and structures with the traditional nativity scenes. In Umbria there are four towns that realize beautiful ones during the Christmas Holidays.