Public holidays 2008 in Spain

Date	Festivity	Concerned area
Public holidays 2008 in Spain On this page you will find the Public holidays 2009 in Spain Should you like to be informed of the publication of the Spanish holidays calendar for the coming year, you can register into my mailing-list, on the following page: http://www.insertcasa.com/engl.htm. You will receive some four (or five) e-mails per year, one of them in autumn, after due publication in the Official Bulletin of the State, containing this calendar of Spanish holidays. Please note that January 2nd, 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…
January 1st	New Year	Spain	Alpujarras: the winter in Ugíjar
January 7th	Monday of Epiphany or Twelfth Day; compensation in certain autonomous communities for the Epiphany, in 2008 celebrated on a Sunday	Andalusia Aragon Asturias Canary Islands Both Castiles Estremadura Madrid Ceuta & Melilla
February 2nd	Our Lady of Candlemas	Tenerife (Canary I.)
February 28th	Day of Andalusia	Andalusia
March 1st	Day of Balearic Islands	Balearic Islands
March 19th	St.-Joseph	Castilla La Mancha Valencian Cty. Galicia Murcie Melilla Navarre Basque Country
March 20th	Maundy Thursday	Spain, except Catalonia	The spring in La Cumbre del Sol (Benitachell, Costa Blanca)
March 21st	Good Friday	Spain
March 24th	Easter Monday	Balearic Islands Catalonia Valencian Cty. Navarra Basque Country La Rioja
April 23rd	Day of the Communities:	Aragon Castilla y León
May 1st	Labour Day	Spain
May 2nd	Day of the autonomous region	Madrid
May 15th	San Isidro	Madrid (city)
May 17th	Day of the Letters	Galicia
May 22nd	Corpus Christi: no official holiday; according to your destination, it is advisable to enquire
May 30th	Day of the Community	Canary Islands
May 31st	Day of the Community	Castilla La Mancha
June 9th	Day of the autonomous regions	Murcia La Rioja	Summer in the Alpujarras, Granada Povince
June 24th	Saint-John: also check according to your destination, mainly in the Valencian community	Catalonia
July 25th	Saint-James	Galicia Madrid Navarra Basque Country La Rioja
July 28th	Institutions Day	Cantabria
August 5th	Our Lady of the Snows	La Palma (Canary I.)
August 15th	Assumption	Spain
September 2nd	Day of Ceuta	Ceuta
September 8th	Day of the Communities	Asturias Estremadura Gran Canaria	Costa Blanca: the autumn in Calpe
September 11th	Diada Nacional	Catalonia
September 15th	Day of the community and regions	Cantabria Lanzarote (Canary I.)
September 20th	Our Lady of La Peña	Fuerteventura (Can.)
September 24th	Our Lady of the Kings	El Hierro (Canary I.)
October 6th	Our Lady of Guadeloupe	La Gomera (Canary I.)
October 9th	Day of Valencia	Valencian Cty.
October 13th	Day of Hispanity's Monday; compensation in certain autonomous communities for the Hispanity Day, in 2008 celebrated on a Sunday	Andalusia Aragon Asturias Balearic Islands Cantabria Castilla y León Estremadura Murcia Ceuta & Melilla
November 1st	All Saints'day	Spain
November 9th	La Almudena	Madrid (city)
December 3rd	Unofficial holiday (check) in	Navarra	Costa Blanca: the winter in Denia
December 6th	Constitution Day	Spain
December 8th	Immaculate Conception	Spain
December 25th	Christmas	Spain
December 26th	Saint-Stephen	Catalonia Balearic Islands
January 1st, 2009	New Year	Spain
January 6th, 2009	Epiphany, Twelfth Day	Spain

Source: Boletín Oficial del Estado nb. 252, October 20th, 2007. Copyright, please read below.

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