What is the Dutch “Sinterklaasintocht”?
Sinterklaas komt aan op Texel met veel kinderen
A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Picked for people who know a little
The Sinterklaasintocht is the annual mid-November ceremony where Sinterklaas arrives in the Netherlands by pakjesboot (his steamboat from Spain). The national Intocht is broadcast live by NTR, rotates each year through a different Dutch town, and is the kickoff for the multi-week build-up to pakjesavond (December 5). After the national broadcast, dozens of gemeenten run their own local intochten on the following weekends, with thousands of kids lining harbors and town squares. The ceremony is the symbolic anchor of Sinterklaasjournaal (NPO Zapp’s nightly Sinterklaas-chronicle that runs through November).
In this clip, NOS Jeugdjournaal covers a Sinterklaasintocht on Texel: “Vanuit het hele land zijn kinderen naar Texel gekomen. Wij komen uit Nijmegen, uit Limburg, uit Rotterdam.”
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- ▸In Dutch Sinterklaas and NTR broadcasting content (NTR, Sinterklaasjournaal, NOS Jeugdjournaal)
- ▸In gemeente tourism and Sint-event marketing (Visit Texel, Holland.com, Het Parool)
- ▸In Dutch primary-school Sinterklaas-education (Het Klokhuis, Schooltv, NPO Zapp)
- ▸In Dutch Zwarte Piet-debate and folklore journalism (NRC, De Volkskrant, Trouw)