Another Visit from the Three Santas of Slovenia

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mapping the long history of Slovenia onto the three "Santas' that visit each year.

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0:00.0	While you're recovering from your visit from Santa, the people in Slovenia are recovering
0:07.4	from visits from three separate Santas in this
0:15.0	holiday edition of 99 P. I hope you have some time off to.
0:18.0	Enjoy.
0:19.0	Oh, and a quick note, the following story acknowledges
0:22.0	the existence of Santa Claus and explores his origin story.
0:26.0	Winkwink. If you or someone in the car seat next to you are not ready to hear that,
0:31.0	well you might want to save this episode for another time.
0:34.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:45.5	Slovenia is a small country in Central Europe,
0:48.6	nestled between Italy, Austria, Croatia, and Hungary.
0:52.7	It's a land of snowy white peaks, green valleys,
0:55.9	and turquoise rivers, beautiful in all seasons,
0:59.2	although especially at Christmas time.
1:02.2	It snowed really early on during my first winter here and it was
1:05.5	just magical. It felt like I was walking through a Christmas card. That's reporter
1:11.0	Will Aspinall. I moved here from the UK with my wife and young family back in 2018 because we were
1:17.1	enchanted with Slovenia's landscape and wanted a new life for the kids.
1:21.2	And in that first year we were really curious what Christmas
1:24.7	was going to be like in this snow globe of a country. We love Christmas and I
1:29.4	thought we did it pretty well back in Britain, but let's just say what Slovenia gets up to every December
1:35.2	kind of blew us away. Like children in the US or the UK, Slovenian kids are visited by Santa Claus every Christmas Eve.
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