The Scuotto brothers’ Scarabattola was founded in 1996 as an innovative business with two focuses: on the one hand, the production of figurines for cribs, individual pieces of the highest quality; on the other, constant artistic experimentation. The workshop, official supplier of the Giffoni Film Festival awards, has itself collected many awards and created prestigious works, such as the monumental crib that is located at the Custody of the Holy Land in Jerusalem. The workshop also makes sculptures in wood, terracotta, stone, marble and bronze on commission.
From Monday to Saturday from 10.30 am to 2 pm and from 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm During the summer, closed on Saturday afternoons
Via dei Tribunali, 50, Napoli, NA, Italia
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+39 081 291735
- http://www.lascarabattola.it
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