Pots, blankets, ladles, and feasting voices or eyes asking for sweets or a coin: this is the tradition related to the Feast of St. Martin, when all kids run around Venice on November 11th.
This celebration is heartfelt by certain communities that had emigrated from Ravenna to the Laguna and celebrated the saint by enjoying chestnuts and wine. Today San Martino is also the name of the of the symbolic sweet of the feast, a shortbread biscuit decorated with sugar coating, chocolate, and candy, bearing the portrait of the Saint on horseback, cutting his cloak and offering it to a poor person.
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