Displays range from the Boot of Cortez, which is thelargestnugget ever discoveredintheWesternHemisphere, toraregold doubloons rescued from the ocean wreckofaSpanish Galleon.
The holiday is celebrated across Europe but while in Scotland, Greece and Romania the saint (one of Jesus's 12 disciples) is honoured in church prayers, pubs or even with a bank holiday, in some remote western Ukrainian villages people will be throwing a boot over a rooftop and whispering chants in candlelight to find a husband or a wife.