Defence Minister Guido Crosetto on Sunday continued his Christmas tour of Italian troops stationed abroad, visiting armed-service personnel engaged in the NATO Baltic Guardian operation at Camp Adazi, in Latvia. (ANSA)
Southerners have been known to go big for the holidays. A few places in our region spread holiday cheer year-round thanks to their unusually festive names. From Garland, Texas and North Pole, Oklahoma to towns named for several of Santa's reindeers, here are 18 Southern towns named for the most wonderful time of the year.