Sinterklaas most popular Dutch tradition

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Some 90% of people polled by the Dutch folk festival centre consider the Sinterklaas celebrations on December 5 as the most important of national traditions.


The centre’s Ineke Stroucken says that perhaps this is a good reason to make the festival a national holiday.

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