Visiting Santa’s Grave

st. nick church

If you wander close to the southern Italian city of Bari, you will most most likely recognize intimate, cobblestoned lanes, cafe-choked piazzas, and a single of Italy’s ideal opera homes. Someplace amongst it all, is the Basilica di San Nicola, and the real tomb containing St. Nick’s bones. Developed in 1087, the castle-esqe basilica was created especially to shelter his stolen stays from Myra, what is now Turkey.

Did not know the jolly ol’ fat guy was Turkish? The Times also describes a existence-sized statue of St. Nicholas outdoors the church that may perhaps change your perception of him a little a lot more. “It depicts a tall, dark man with faraway eyes and an classy, serious demeanor. It is St Nicholas — but he doesn’t search like any Santa Claus I’ve ever seen.”

What? No bowl full of jelly?

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