Public Holidays in Rome
It’s always interesting to find out the public holidays of the place you’re travelling to beforehand. This allows you to make the most of holidays and also gives you an idea of when museums and other places of interest are closed.
Public Holidays in Rome
- New Year's: January 1st
- Epiphany: January 6th, on this day, the witch Befana brings gifts and sweets to the good children and coal to those who have been bad
- Maundy Thursday: (date varies).
- Easter Monday: First Monday after Easter
- Liberation Day: April 25th, this day celebrates the end of the Nazi occupation in Italy and the fall of Mussolini's Social Republic
- Labour Day: May 1st
- Republic Day: June 2nd, this day commemorates the day in which the Italians voted to abolish the Monarchy and the country became a republic in 1946
- Ferragosto (Assumption of Mary): August 15th
- All Saints’ Day: November 1st
- Feast of the Immaculate Conception: December 8th
- Christmas Day: December 25th
- St. Stephen’s Day: December 26th