The days are crisp but flooded with sunshine. At night, a thick fog rolls in clinging to the old-fashioned street lamps and baroque buildings. It feels haunting, and Christmassy. Making Venice an ...
The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.