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• The Jewish Historical Cultural Museum • Landhuis Bloemhof

Saint Nicholas Celebration (5 December) (Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagoge) Santa Rosaweg 6
Saint Nicholas from Spain sails into the Sint Anna Bay Hanchi Snoa 29 (+5999) 737 5775
every year on his sailing ship, accompanied by his goblins (+5999) 461 1633 www.bloemhof.an
called “Zwarte Piet”(Black Peter) and his white horse. www.snoa.com
Families with small children gather at the Harbor in • Landhuis Habaai
Punda and Otrobanda to welcome the Saint’s arrival by • Curaçao National Museum Frater Radulpusweg 4
boat. On St. Nicholas Eve all children place a bucket of Van Leeuwenhoekstraat (+5999) 462 8896
water and a shoe filled with hay for St. Nicholas’ big white (+5999) 462 3873 www.galleryalmablou.com
horse. If they have been good all year, they will wake to www.thecuracaomuseum.com
find their shoes filled with gifts. ose who haven’t are • Landhuis Brakkeput Mei-Mei
afraid that the goblins will carry them back to Spain in a • Fort Church Museum Jan Sofat, Spaanse Water
sack. So be good! Fort Amsterdam (Punda) (+5999) 767 1500
(+5999) 461 1139 www.brakkeputmeimei.com
Christmas (24-26 December, public holidays) www.fortchurchcuracao.com • Landhuis Brievengat
Celebrate two-and-a-half days of family festivities, which
formally begin on Christmas Eve, December 24. In • Museum Kurá Hulanda Brievengat
Catholic churches a midnight mass is performed. Klipstraat 9 (Otrabanda) (+5999) 518 0549
(+5999) 434 7765 • Landhuis Chobolobo
Fireworks www.kurahulanda.com Salinja Ariba
Between December 27 and 31, hundreds of stalls line the
road where fireworks are for sale. is is the only period in • Maritime Museum (+5999) 461 3526
which firework sales are permitted in Curaçao. Experience Van Den Brandhofstraat 7 (+5999) www.curacaoliqueur.com
impressive fireworks shows around the island during this 465 2327 • Landhuis Daniel
time; the loud fireworks known as ‘klapchi,’ with a bigger www.curacaomaritime.com Weg naar Westpunt z/n
thunder box or the deafening air bomb and more (+5999) 864 8400
decorative fireworks like the fountain, exploding star, • Numismatic Museum
Roman candle or rockets. Scharlooweg 11 www.landhuisdaniel.com
(+5999) 434 5500 • Landhuis Dokterstuin
e year ends formally in the afternoon when shops and www.centralbank.an Dokterstuin 83
offices close their doors. Local companies and (+5999) 864 2701
organizations light enormous rolls of Chinese firecrackers • Postal Museum
in a sort of friendly competition called “pagara.” At Kaya Toni Prince (Punda) • Landhuis Jan Kok Willibrordus
midnight the fireworks display reaches a deafening climax (+5999) 465 8010 (+5999) 869 4965
that lasts for at least fifteen minutes and crackles www.nenasanchez.com
throughout the entire night. • Telecommunication Museum
Wilhelminaplein 4 (Punda) Forts
New Year’s Day After the year closes with hours of loud (+5999) 465 2844 • Fort Amsterdam
fireworks, locals traditionally visit family and friends on
the first day of the New Year. • Kas di Pal’I Maishi Punda•
Dokterstuin 27 • Fort Beekenburg
(+5999) 465 2844
Caracasbaai
• Octagon Museum • Fort Nassau
Penstraat 100 Fort Nassau z/n
(+5999) 461 4377 (+5999) 461 3450
www.avilahotel.com
www.fortnassau.com
• Landhuis Ascension • Fort Waakzaamheid
Weg naar westpunt Otrobanda
(+5999) 864 1950
• The Rif Fort
Otrobanda
33
(+5999) 435 5000

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