Witchy holiday doings in Italy

 Truus, Bob & Jan too!!

Never mind Santa Claus, here on the eve of the Epiphany on January 6th (the 12th day of Christmas) a friendly strega (witch) called La Befana comes overnight to leave good children candies and presents and the bad ones lumps

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Palermo and Siena cited in '8 Gems among Europe's Lesser Known Cathedrals and Churches'

Raimond Spekking

Notre Dame in Paris, London's St. Paul, St. Peter's in Rome - some of Europe's greatest cathedrals are justly famous and huge tourist draws. But of course Christian Europe offers myriad other cathedrals which are lesser known but als

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