Sinterklaas is the Dutch iteration of the classic Saint Nicholas legend, often called the “De Sint.” Unlike his American counterpart, Sinterklaas wears a more traditional bishop garb and delivers ...

Mostly it was about spending time with our grandmother. ... We'd sit at her round dining room table in front of her 1931 Belgian Sinterklaas statue, sip hot chocolate and eat our speculaas. While ...

Contributing writer Cathy Healy was in Amsterdam this year to see some of the festivities that surround the arrival of Sinterklaas – or the Dutch Santa Claus. If you’re naughty, not nice in the ...

HOLLAND — Sinterklaas delights the children of Holland every year with his visit for Sinterklaas Eve. Holland's event, which began in the 1990s, is patterned after Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations and ...

While many Europeans will wait until the end of December for their Christmas celebrations, the Dutch have already got going. This evening (5 December) signifies the Sinterklaas evening with the ...

My mother is from Holland and so, like every Dutch child, I celebrated Sinterklaas every year. According to Dutch tradition, Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas, arrives in the Netherlands from Spain each ...

Vianen in Utrecht is hosting this year’s official arrival of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands on Saturday, the kick-off for three weeks of festivities ahead of the main December 5 present-giving event.

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Sinterklaas, the annual winter festival, will not take place this year unless organizers can “pull a rabbit out of a hat,” event founder Jeanne Fleming said Monday, July 15. After ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — While Sinterklaas was not held in the village this year, the iconic Rhinebeck event’s spirit lived on at “Dances with the Polar Bear” on Saturday afternoon. More than a hundred ...