Public holidays in Italy: Information from Answers.com

Holidays in Italy:

Date	English Name	Local Name	Remarks
1 January	New Year's Day	Capodanno
6 January	Epiphany	Epifania
Movable	Easter Sunday	Pasqua
Monday after Easter	Easter Monday	Lunedì dell'Angelo, Pasquetta
25 April	Anniversary of Liberation	Festa della Liberazione	End of World War II in Italy, 1945
1 May	Labour Day	Festa dei Lavoratori
2 June	Republic Day	Festa della Repubblica	Birth of the Italian Republic, 1946
15 August	Ferragosto/Assumption Day	Ferragosto and Assunzione
1 November	All Saints	Ognissanti or Tutti i santi
8 December	Immaculate Conception	Immacolata Concezione (or just Immacolata)
25 December	Christmas Day	Natale
26 December	St Stephen's Day	Santo Stefano

These days are not public holidays anymore; they might be celebrated or not depending on the region of origin and professed religion:

Date	English Name	Local Name	Remarks
19 March	Saint Joseph's Day	Festa di San Giuseppe
2 November	Day of the Dead	Giorno dei morti
4 November	National Unity and Armed Forces Day	Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e Festa delle Forze Armate	Victory over Austria-Hungary, 1918

These days are not public holidays, but are nevertheless established by law:

Date	English Name	Local Name
7 January	Flag Day	Festa del tricolore
27 January	International Holocaust Remembrance Day	Giorno della Memoria
11 February	The Lateran Pacts	Patti Lateranensi
9 May	Europe Day	Giorno europeo

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States with limited recognition	Abkhazia ² · Kosovo · Nagorno-Karabakh¹ · Northern Cyprus¹ · South Ossetia ² · Transnistria

Other entities	·

Dependencies, autonomies, other territories	Adjara¹ · Adygea · Akrotiri and Dhekelia · Åland · Azores · Bashkortostan · Chechnya · Chuvashia · Crimea · Dagestan · Faroe Islands · Gagauzia · Gibraltar · Guernsey · Ingushetia · Jan Mayen · Jersey · Kabardino-Balkaria · Kalmykia · Karachay-Cherkessia · Republic of Karelia · Komi Republic · Madeira · Isle of Man · Mari El · Mordovia · Nakhchivan¹ · North Ossetia-Alania · Svalbard · Tatarstan · Udmurtia · Vojvodina

¹ Geographically entirely in Asia, but nonetheless often considered European. ² Partially or entirely in Asia, depending on the border definitions. ³ Transcontinental country.

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