Italy public holidays

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13 national giorni festivi in 2026 — up from 12, and 2026 is the FIRST year at 13. NEW: Legge 8 ottobre 2025, n. 151 (GU n. 236 del 10 ottobre 2025) inserts '4 ottobre: festa nazionale di San Francesco d'Assisi, patrono d'Italia' into the Law 260/1949 list, with the law's provisions entering into force 1 January 2026 and applying from 2026; 4 October now carries full civil effects including festive pay treatment and closure of public offices. It restores a holiday abolished in 1977 by L. 54/1977 (the austerity law that also moved Republic Day and Unification Day off their calendar dates). The same law amends L. 132/1958 to remove San Francesco from the joint patron-saints solennità civile, leaving 4 October as a full giorno festivo rather than a mere civil observance. NO MONDAYISATION: Italy has no substitution rule whatsoever. A giorno festivo falling on a Saturday or Sunday is simply absorbed — no compensating day off, no shifted observance. This bites hard in 2026: Easter Sunday (5 Apr), Liberation Day (25 Apr, Saturday), Ferragosto (15 Aug, Saturday), the brand-new San Francesco (4 Oct, SUNDAY — the new holiday delivers no additional day off in its debut year), All Saints (1 Nov, Sunday) and Santo Stefano (26 Dec, Saturday) all fall on weekends. Only 7 of the 13 land on working weekdays in 2026 (1 Jan Thu, 6 Jan Tue, 6 Apr Mon, 1 May Fri, 2 Jun Tue, 8 Dec Tue, 25 Dec Fri). Note that CCNLs and some employers grant monetary compensation for festività coinciding with Sunday, but that is contractual, not statutory. DELIBERATE EXCLUSIONS: (1) Municipal patron-saint days, which are legally giorni festivi but ONLY in the individual comune — Rome 29 June (SS. Pietro e Paolo), Milan 7 December (Sant'Ambrogio), Naples 19 September (San Gennaro), Florence/Genoa/Turin 24 June (San Giovanni), Venice 25 April (San Marco, coinciding with Liberation Day), Bologna 4 October (San Petronio, now coinciding with the national San Francesco holiday). Every Italian resident effectively gets 14 days, but the 14th is location-dependent and cannot be served as national data. (2) 4 November (Giorno dell'Unità Nazionale e delle Forze Armate) is a solennità civile under L. 54/1977, celebrated on the first Sunday of November (1 Nov 2026) — NOT a giorno festivo and correctly absent from this list. (3) Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol observes additional local days (e.g. Pentecost Monday) by provincial arrangement — regional, excluded. No dates in this list are provisional: Easter is computus-fixed (5 April 2026) and every other date is calendar-fixed. Access quirk: gazzettaufficiale.it ELI URLs resolve to a metadata shell with the statutory text in a linked PDF; normattiva.it serves the consolidated text of L. 260/1949 with amendments applied, and is the better re-verification target. 2027 EXTENSION (2026-07-29): the 2027 dates are the permanent statutory holiday calendar carried forward — fixed-date holidays keep their date and Easter-linked holidays are computed for Easter Sunday 28 March 2027. This country applies no automatic weekend substitution, so holidays falling on a weekend are not moved. One-off holidays proclaimed for 2027 (if any) are not included; re-verify against the official source near-year.

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