{"id":22978,"date":"2025-12-16T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.abano.it\/eventi\/here-come-the-krampus-devils-of-st-nicholas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:24:41","slug":"here-come-the-krampus-devils-of-st-nicholas","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/blog.abano.it\/en\/eventi\/here-come-the-krampus-devils-of-st-nicholas\/","title":{"rendered":"Here come the Krampus &#8211; Devils of St. Nicholas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>KRAMPUS<\/strong> Legend returns to Montegrotto Terme with Damnatus Nomine. From South Tyrolean and German tradition, the <strong>Devils of St. Nicholas<\/strong> return to Montegrotto Terme to scare the bad guys away. They are demons, ugly but redeemed, who tradition has it that they teach how to behave so as not to become like them. 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