Saturday 13 December - Saint Lucia Day (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and parts of Italy. Dedicated to Saint Lucia's independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)

Thursday 25 December - Christmas Day

Friday 26 December - St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Andorra, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland)

Wednesday 31 December - New Year’s Eve

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January 2026

Thursday 1 January - Intesa Sanpaolo Day; New Year’s Day

Tuesday 6 January - Befana Day in Italy; Three Kings’ Day or Epiphany

Wednesday 7 January - Tricolour Day or Festa del Tricolore in Italy

Tuesday 27 January - Memorial Day in Italy

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February 2026

Monday 2 February - Hedgehog Day

Monday 9 February - International Pizza Day

Tuesday 10 February - National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Giorno del ricordo)

Wednesday 11 February - Concord Day in Italy (in honor of the signing of the Lateran Accords)

Saturday 14 February - Valentine’s Day

Sunday 22 February - European Day for Equal Pay Men and Women

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March 2026

Friday 6 March - World Day of Prayer

Sunday 8 March - International Women’s Day

Sunday 15 March - Ides of March

Tuesday 17 March - Day of National Unity, Constitution, Anthem and Flag in Italy

Thursday 19 March - St. Joseph's Day (Italy, Malta, Liechtenstein); Saint Joseph's Day or Father's Day (in Andorra, Angola, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Honduras, and Bolivia)

Saturday 21 March - Tree Planting Day in Belgium, Italy, Lesotho, Portugal; National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Mafia Violence in Italy

Sunday 22 March - The Day of the Forty Saints

Wednesday 25 March - Pisan New Year; National Dante Day in Italy

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April 2026

Friday 3 April - World Party Day

Sunday 5 April - Easter

Monday 6 April - International Carbonara Day

Wednesday 8 April - International Provenance Research Day (Held on the second Wednesday of April)

Friday 17 April - National Espresso Day in Italy

Tuesday 21 April - The founding of Rome in Italy

Saturday 25 April - Day of Freedom from Fascism and Memorial Day of the Evangelist Mark in Italy; Venice Day in Italy (Venice City Festival)

Sunday 26 April - Genazzano in Italy (annual celebration of the memory of Our Lady of Mariana in the Good Council in 1467)

Tuesday 28 April - National Day in Sardinia, Italy or Sardinia Day

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May 2026

Friday 1 May - May Crownings or the Virgin Mary Month (Catholic Church tradition); International Workers’ Day (May Day)

Sunday 10 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Monday 11 May - Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints

Saturday 16 May - World Heavy Metal Day

Thursday 21 May - European Natura 2000 Day

Friday 29 May - Festival in Lombardy, Italy (commemorating the victory at the Battle of Legnano)

Sunday 31 May - European Siblings' Day

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June 2026

Sunday 7 June - World Naturist Day (Starts on the first Sunday of June in the northern hemisphere and on the first Sunday of December in the southern hemisphere)

Wednesday 10 June - Navy Day in Italy

Monday 15 June - Engineer's Day in Italy

Monday 29 June - Wine Battle Memorial Day (Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, Malta, Peru, Rome Italy, Sao Paulo, Chile, Spain)

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July 2026

Wednesday 1 July - Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Christ

Thursday 2 July - Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)

Saturday 4 July - Garibaldi Day in Italy

Wednesday 15 July - Festival of Santa Rosalia in Palermo, Italy (Sicily)

Friday 17 July - Cantiere Internationale d'Arte in Montepulciano

Sunday 26 July - St. Anne's Day in Italy

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August 2026

Saturday 1 August - Clown Day in Italy (In Italy, they call it Internazionale pagliaccio giorni)

Monday 3 August - Stephen (Discovery of the relic. Christian feast day)

Tuesday 4 August - Santo Domingo de Guzman Day

Wednesday 5 August - Our Lady of Snows Day

Monday 10 August - Holiday of the city of Sanluri in Italy (in honor of St. Lawrence)

Saturday 15 August - Ferragosto in Italy; Feast day of the Assumption of Mary (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu)

Sunday 16 August - Siena Palio in Italy; Saint Rocco's Feast Day in Italy

Thursday 20 August - National Holiday of the Principality of Seborg (Principality of Seborg is a virtual state proclaimed in 1963 by the inhabitants of the village of the same name in the Italian administrative region of Liguria, near the French border)

Sunday 23 August - Valentino Day (or Rudolfo Alfonzo Raffaelo Piero Filibert Guglielmi De Valentina D’Antonguolla)

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