Please note that the Ascension Day and Whit
Monday are not public holidays in Spain. Except for Madrid, the purely local
public holidays are not indexed below. There are two or three of them in each
city or village, which isn't so much, but if you travel, you probably can spend
the year in public holidays...
Date
Festivity
Concerned area
January 1st
New Year
Spain
Home Sweet Casa
January 6th
Epiphany, Twelfth Day
Spain
February 28th
Day of Andalusia
Andalusia
March 1st
Day of Balearic Islands
Balearic Islands
March 19th
Saint-Joseph
Castilla La Mancha Valencian
Cty. Galicia Murcia Navarra Melilla
March 24th
Maundy Thursday
Spain, exceptCatalonia
March 25th
Good Friday
Spain
March 28th
Easter Monday
Catalonia Valencian Cty. Navarra Basque Country La
Rioja
Costa Blanca: the Mediterranean at Cullera
April 23rd
Day of the Communities:
Aragon Castilla y León
May 2nd
Labour Day Monday
Spain except Catalonia Castilla
La Mancha Galicia Navarra La Rioja
May 3rd
Day of the autonomous region
Madrid
Costa Blanca, Quesada country-club
May 16th
Granada Easter Monday
Catalonia
May 17th
Day of the Letters
Galicia
May 30th
Day of the Community
Canary Islands
May 31st
Day of the Community
Castilla La Mancha
June 4th
no official holiday; check in Barcelona and
Sevilla
June 9th
Day of the autonomous regions
Murcia La Rioja
June 24th
Saint-John
Catalonia
no official holiday; check according to your
destination
June 29th
no official holiday; check in many places: Burgos,
Avila, Castellón, Segovia, Soria, Zamora...
Spanish Retreats La Marina Office receiving a visit from the local farmer
July 25th
Saint-James
Canary Islands Castilla y
León Galicia Madrid Navarra Basque Country La Rioja
July 28th
Day of the Institutions
Cantabria
August 15th
Assumption
Spain
September 2nd
Day of Ceuta
Ceuta
Costa Calida: Looking back from path to Lo Pagan on the beach side
Source: Boletín Oficial del Estado nb. 255, October 22nd,
2004. Copyright, please read below.
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