Train strike
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Thursday february 1, 2024
Secular holiday :
General strike
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Thursday february 1, 2024
Secular holiday :
Sports holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 2, 2024
School holidays :
Día de la Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Tenerife only)
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Friday february 2, 2024
Catholic :
Transportation strike
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Friday february 2, 2024
Secular holiday :
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 2, 2024
School holidays :
General strike
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Friday february 2, 2024
Secular holiday :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 2, 2024
School holidays :
Midwinter Marathon
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Sunday february 4, 2024
Sports events : Www.midwintermarathon.nl/ in Apeldoorn 2024 edition confirmed
Parliamentary election
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Sunday february 4, 2024
Special Events :
Bit International Tourism Exchange
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Sunday february 4, 2024
Tradeshows : Https://bit.fieramilano.it lasts 4 days - in Milano 2024 edition confirmed
Tennis Open 13 Provence
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Monday february 5, 2024
Sports events : lasts 6 days -- in Marseilles 2024 edition confirmed
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday february 5, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (end)
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Monday february 5, 2024
School holidays :
St Brigid's Day
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Monday february 5, 2024
Secular holiday : Saint Brigid of Kildare or Brigid of Ireland (Irish: Naomh Bríd; Latin: Brigida; c. 451 – 525) is one of Ireland's patron saints, along with Patrick and Columba. Irish hagiography makes her an early Irish Christian nun, abbess, and foundress of several monasteries of nuns, including that of Kildare in Ireland, which was famous and was revered. Her feast day is 1 February, which was originally a pagan festival called Imbolc, marking the beginning of spring. Her feast day is shared by Dar Lugdach, who tradition says was her student, close companion, and the woman who succeeded her. [Wikipedia]
Marseille Open 13 Tennis Cup
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Monday february 5, 2024
Sports events : Www.atptennis.com 2024 edition confirmed
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday february 5, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday february 7, 2024
School holidays :
Fasching (banks remain open)
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Thursday february 8, 2024
Catholic :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 9, 2024
School holidays :
Carnival holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 9, 2024
School holidays :
Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 9, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 9, 2024
School holidays :
Regional holiday
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Friday february 9, 2024
Secular holiday : Nice Carnaval - www.nicecarnaval.com lasts 2 weeks -- in Nice only - Southern France 2024 edition NOT YET confirmed
Carnival - Krokusvakantie (beginning)
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Friday february 9, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 9, 2024
School holidays :
Carnival holiday (beginning)
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Saturday february 10, 2024
School holidays :
Chinese New Year
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Saturday february 10, 2024
cards/flowers : At New Year during the night, the Jade Emperor conveyed all animals. Only 12 showed up. To thank them, Buddha dedicated one symbolic year per visitor. Each new born would inherit the relevant animal's characteristics.
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Saturday february 10, 2024
School holidays :
Petersburg Marathon
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Sunday february 11, 2024
Sports events : Http://www.stpetersburgdistanceclassic.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Wroclaw Marathon
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Sunday february 11, 2024
Sports events : Www.wroclawmaraton.pl 2024 edition confirmed
Mother's Day
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Sunday february 11, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation.
Customary holiday (banks remain open)
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Monday february 12, 2024
Secular holiday : Carnival not an official public holiday, but de facto holiday
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday february 12, 2024
School holidays :
Carnival
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Monday february 12, 2024
Secular holiday : Government employees and civil servants only
Regional holiday
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Monday february 12, 2024
Secular holiday : Carnival Cadix only
Sports holiday (end)
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Monday february 12, 2024
School holidays :
Rotterdam ABN AMRO Tennis Tournament
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Monday february 12, 2024
Sports events : Www.atptennis.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Train strike
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Monday february 12, 2024
Secular holiday :
Winter Midterm Bank Holiday
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Monday february 12, 2024
Secular holiday : Used to be called Commonwealth Day
Vinisud (even years only)
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Monday february 12, 2024
Tradeshows : Lasts 3 days - https://www.foiresinfo.fr/Wine-M11633/Paris.html in Paris 2024 edition confirmed
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday february 12, 2024
School holidays :
Shrove Tuesday
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
Banks only :
Customary holiday
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
Secular holiday : Shrove Tuesday Carnival
Nuremberg BIOFACH
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
Tradeshows : Lasts 4 days - www.biofach.de/en/
organic food 2024 edition confirmed
Regional holiday
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
Secular holiday : Carnival in Santa Cruz only
Carnival
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
Catholic : Called 'festa móvel' in Brazil.
Mardi Gras
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Tuesday february 13, 2024
School holidays :
Zagreb Sport & Boat Show
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
Tradeshows : Lasts 5 days - www.zv.hr 2024 edition confirmed
Carnival holiday (end)
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday february 14, 2024
School holidays :
Carnival holiday (end)
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Thursday february 15, 2024
School holidays :
Serbia National Day
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Thursday february 15, 2024
Secular holiday : Anniversary of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the first Serbian Constitution in 1835
Uddeholm Swedish Rally
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Thursday february 15, 2024
Sports events : Www.rallysweden.com/ lasts 3 days - in Karlstad 2027 edition confirmed
Carnival holiday (beginning)
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Thursday february 15, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 16, 2024
School holidays :
Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 16, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 16, 2024
School holidays :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 16, 2024
School holidays :
Serbia National Day
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Friday february 16, 2024
Secular holiday :
Independence Day
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Friday february 16, 2024
Secular holiday : Anniversary of Lithuania's declaration of independence in 1918. However, it became a republic of the USSR in 1940, after a secret treaty between Stalin and Hitler. The country regained independence in 1990.
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Saturday february 17, 2024
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Saturday february 17, 2024
Secular holiday : Not a paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Sevilla Marathon
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Sunday february 18, 2024
Sports events : Https://en.zurichmaratonsevilla.es/ 2024 edition confirmed
Regional election
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Sunday february 18, 2024
Special Events :
Train strike
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Monday february 19, 2024
Secular holiday : In London area
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Teachers strike
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Regional holiday
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Monday february 19, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Please check with www.fasnachts-comite.ch (in German) for a list of numerous festivities. It all begins with what is known as the Morgestraich. At exactly 4 a.m., all the lights in the city center go off. Out of the pitch darkness, the sound of drums and piccolos waft through the cold night air. Closer and closer it comes, and a faint light glows in the distance.
Suddenly, there they are, coming from all directions, the musicians and marchers of the citys Fasnacht cliques. Each wears a masks. Some have small lamps on their heads. They carry painted lanterns that mock things that happend during the past year.
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Independence Day
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Monday february 19, 2024
Secular holiday : Not a paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Carnival holiday (end)
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Carnival - Krokusvakantie (end)
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Spring holiday (end)
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (end)
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Half-term holiday (end)
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Monday february 19, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (end)
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Tuesday february 20, 2024
School holidays :
Carnival holiday (beginning)
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Wednesday february 21, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (end)
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Thursday february 22, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (end)
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Thursday february 22, 2024
School holidays :
Defence of the Motherland
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Friday february 23, 2024
Secular holiday : First celebrated in 1919 the holiday marks the date in 1918 during the Russian Civil War when the first mass draft into the Red Army occurred in Petrograd and Moscow. In January 1919 it was decided to combine the celebration that day with the anniversary of the publication of the decree on the establishment of the Red Army (of 18 February 1918). Since then it stayed that day. In 1923 it was officially named the Day of the Red Army and the Navy.
In 1949, it was renamed Soviet Army and Navy Day. Following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the holiday was given its current name in 2002. work on weekends and non-working holidays is not overtime work.
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 23, 2024
School holidays :
Semana blanca (beginning)
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Friday february 23, 2024
School holidays : in Malaga
Day of Mourning
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Friday february 23, 2024
Special Events : In tribute to a blaze victimes
Defenders' Day
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Friday february 23, 2024
Secular holiday :
Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 23, 2024
School holidays :
General strike
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Friday february 23, 2024
Secular holiday :
Carnaval (beginning) - French schools
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Friday february 23, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (beginning)
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Friday february 23, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Saturday february 24, 2024
School holidays :
Salon de l'Agriculture
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Saturday february 24, 2024
Tradeshows : Www.salon-agriculture.com/ lasts 10 days - in Paris 2024 edition confirmed
Winter holiday (beginning)
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Sunday february 25, 2024
School holidays :
Parliamentary election
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Sunday february 25, 2024
Special Events :
Malta Marathon
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Sunday february 25, 2024
Sports events : Www.maltamarathon.com/ 2024 edition confirmed
Referendum
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Sunday february 25, 2024
Special Events : On the direct election of the government members
Verdi Marathon
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Sunday february 25, 2024
Sports events : Http://verdimarathon.it/ 2024 edition confirmed
Regional election
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Sunday february 25, 2024
Special Events :
Salon International de l'Auto & Accessoires
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Monday february 26, 2024
Tradeshows : Www.salon-auto.ch lasts 10 days - 2024 edition confirmed
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday february 26, 2024
School holidays :
Sports holiday (end)
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Monday february 26, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (end)
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Monday february 26, 2024
School holidays :
Spring holiday (end)
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Monday february 26, 2024
School holidays :
Winter holiday (end) - 1 -
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Monday february 26, 2024
School holidays : Ljubljana, Maribor
Mobile World Congress
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Monday february 26, 2024
Tradeshows : Https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/ in Barcelona 2024 edition confirmed
Carnival holiday (end)
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Monday february 26, 2024
School holidays :
Feria IMEX-Madrid
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Tuesday february 27, 2024
Tradeshows : Https://imexmadrid.com/ Lasts 4 days 2024 edition confirmed
Andalusia Day
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Wednesday february 28, 2024
Secular holiday : Commemorates the day when the Andalucian people voted for autonomy on Feb. 28, 1980
General strike
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Wednesday february 28, 2024
Secular holiday : Public sector employees including transport workers, air traffic controllers, health professionals, and teachers will take part in the nationwide industrial action
Moscow International Boat Show (MIBS)
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Thursday february 29, 2024
Tradeshows : Http://eng.mosboatshow.ru/boat/ lasts 4 days - 2024 edition confirmed
PRODÍTĚ
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Thursday february 29, 2024
Tradeshows : Https://www.bvv.cz/en/prodite/prodite-2017/ lasts 4 days - in Brno 2024 edition confirmed
Regional holiday
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Sunday february 2, 2025
Catholic : Virgen de la Calle in Palencia only
Candlemass
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Sunday february 2, 2025
Catholic : Candlemas is a Roman Catholic festival that commemorates the ritual purification of Mary 40 days after the birth of her son. The candles used in the church during the rest of the year are blessed.
Regional holiday
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Monday february 3, 2025
Secular holiday : St. Blaise (festa Sveti Vlaho)
A 4th century Armenian martyr, he is said to have appeared to the inhabitants of Dubrovnik floating in the air in 971 in order to warn them of an imminent attack from Venice. Since 972, Saint-Blaise has been celebrated every year. in Dubrovnik only
Sant' Agata -
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Wednesday february 5, 2025
Secular holiday : Separation from Cardinal Alberoni's protectorate in 1740
Regional holiday
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Wednesday february 5, 2025
Catholic or protestant : Saint Agatha of Sicily
St Brigid's Day
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Thursday february 6, 2025
School holidays :
National Day
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Thursday february 6, 2025
Secular holiday : The Sami are an Arctic indigenous people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. They are considered to have been living in the Sami settlement area - Sapmi - as far back in time as source material can tell us, which stretches from the Kola Peninsula in northeast Russia to Engerdal in eastern Norway and Idre in southern Sweden.
It is estimated that about 60-70 000 Sami live in these areas today, whereas approximately 40 000 live in Norway, 20 000 in Sweden, 7500 in Finland and 2000 in Russia.
Slovene Culture Day
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Saturday february 8, 2025
Secular holiday : Commemorates the death of Slovenian poet France Preeren. It was established as a national cultural day in 1944, and was declared public holiday in 1991. [Wikipedia]
Abolition of Slavery
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Saturday february 8, 2025
Secular holiday : Commemorates abolition in Muntenia on Feb. 8, 1856.
Not all communities are concerned with this celebration.
Shipwreckage of Saint Paul
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Monday february 10, 2025
Secular holiday : In the year 60 AD, an event took place that is comprehensively described in the New Testament: the shipwreck of the apostle Paul. According to the legend this shipwreck took place at St Paul's Bay. Saint Paul stayed in Malta for three months and performed a number of miracles, like the healing of the father of Publius, the Roman governor. St. Paul converted the Maltese to christianity.
Lateran Treaty
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Tuesday february 11, 2025
Secular holiday :
Valentine's Day
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Friday february 14, 2025
cards/flowers : Bálint nap , celebrated since 1989
Valentine's Day
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Friday february 14, 2025
cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
Regional holiday
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Friday february 14, 2025
Catholic : Ash Wednesday in Bellinzona only
Regional holiday
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Saturday february 15, 2025
Secular holiday : Elizabeth Wedding Anniversary in Teruel only
Regional holiday
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Thursday february 20, 2025
Secular holiday : Kurt Cobain Day in Aberdeen only
Dragobete
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Monday february 24, 2025
cards/flowers : Dragobete was the son of Baba Dochia, which stands for the main character in the pagan myth related to spring arrival and the end of the harsh winter. Due to his endless kindness he was chosen according to some sources, by Virgin Mary to be the Guardian of Love.
The day is particularly known as the day when the birds are betrothed . It is around this time that the birds begin to build their nests and mate. On this day, considered locally the first day of spring, boys and girls gather vernal flowers and sing together. [Wikipedia]
Independence Day
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Monday february 24, 2025
Secular holiday : Commemorates the declaration of independence on Feb. 24, 1918 (the day before German troops invaded Tallinn) Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday