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Playmobil Pilgrims

If, after following the Lego Pilgrims, you would like to see some Playmobil Pilgrims then have a look at http://www.larioja.com/fotos/la-rioja/201606/09/camino-vista-click-20587539360-mm.html?edition=  because someone spent a lot of time on these for an exhibition


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An article at  https://lariojaturismo.com/comunidad/larioja/recurso/exposicion-playmobil-en-el-camino/01940a43-5e91-4b20-8d4c-c3f847a68f2b states (according to google translate) that:


'The Cloister of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada hosts until next October 13, the exhibition "Playmobil in El Camino".
A sample that recreates different scenes of the Camino de Santiago with more than a thousand Playmobil dolls as protagonists.
It is more than 4 months of work that the members of the Spanish Association of Collectors of Playmobil, AESclick, have invested in making the traditional Playmobil dolls, more than a thousand, become authentic pilgrims and travel the main stages of traditional
Santiago's road.
The exhibition covers an area of ​​40 square meters and in that space some of the most important stages of the Camino are recreated like Saint Jean de Pied de Port, Roncesvalles, Puente la Reina, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Burgos, Leon, Ponferrada The Santiago. In all these stages you can also see different buildings that throughout the history have hosted the pilgrims, such as private houses, cathedrals, town halls and all kinds of various facilities such as campsites or rest areas, until at the end of last century
Emerged the shelters as we know them today.
Among the religious and monumental buildings are the Cathedral of León, the Cathedral of Burgos, the Castle of Ponferrada, the Plaza del Obradoiro and the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
They have also given life to landscapes like the barren land and plain of the fields of Castile.
As far as Santo Domingo de la Calzada is concerned, the Association has recreated the Albergue Hospedería Cisterciense of the town, the entrance bridge over the Rio Oja or the statue of the Saint with the rooster and the hen.
This is not the first time that AESclick exhibits in the Cathedral, in previous occasions the visitors could enjoy a classic Bethlehem made with characters of Playmobil and in the past Christmas to Bethlehem were added new scenes as the Annunciation or the Passion of Christ
.
AESclick, the Spanish Association of Collectors of Playmobil, was born of the concerns of a group of fans and lovers of the clicks that in their eagerness to divulge this toy, wanted to go a step further and stop being an amateur of foot to endow of
A formal aspect to this hobby.
Eleven years have passed since the Association was created, the first official in Spain and worldwide. Among its activities stand out different exhibitions in Zaragoza, Madrid or Barbastro.
They have a guinness record with a sample on the evolution of history, from prehistory to the space age, where 68,808 playmobil dolls were used.
Finally, it should be noted that AESclick has a program to spread this toy among the most disadvantaged. So they have installed in the children's plants of hospitals such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Seville, Burgos Bilbao or Canarias, urns that reflect different scenes or dioramas for the recreation of hospitalized children. A new urn will soon be inaugurated at the Hospital de Albacete.'



Unfortunately the exhibition seems to have finished in October 2016 but the pictures are well worth a look

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