Nativity Festival in Lviv

Lviv hosted the Nativity Festival on the main stage of the Christmas fair at the city's Christmas tree in front of the Opera House on January 7-8, 2017.

Nativity shows were played by an old Ukrainian portable puppet theater, which performed religious and secular (mostly humorous and ironic) plays.

The Ukrainian Nativity Theater, also known as vertep, is a unique phenomenon in theatrical cultures.