Saint Nicolas de Port

Saint-Nicolas-de-Port is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in north-eastern France.

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• 769e procession aux flambeaux dans la basilique de saint nicolas de port
• Map of 54210 Saint Nicolas de Port France
• References

Map of 54210 Saint-Nicolas-de-Port, France

The town's basilica, Saint Nicolas is a pilgrimage site, supposedly holding relics of Saint Nicholas brought from Italy. It is one of France's Monuments historiques, and a minor basilica since 1950.

The town's inhabitants are known asPortois. In the past, the Portois were known as loudmouths; their neighbours across the Meurthe at Varangéville liked to gather on the opposite river bank to bombard them with a chorus indicating a wish to defecate in their mouths:

which in the local Lorrain dialect means:

St Nicholas-de-Port is also known for fossil remains of very early (late Triassic) ancestral mammals.