Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
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Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day  
January 6 Epiphany
March 19 San Jose
March 20 Maunday Thursday
March 21 Good Friday (Not a bank holiday)
May 1 May Day/Labour Day
August 15 Feast of the Assumption (not banks)
September 11 National Day of Catalonia (Catalonia only)
October 12 Spanish National Day
November 1 All Saints Day
December 6 Day of the Constitution
December 8 Immaculate Conception
December 25 Christmas Day  
You should know:

An ad hoc holiday is sometimes given on the Feast of San José, 19 March.

Holidays falling on a weekend are not moved.

If a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, then there will be a tendency for many people to take an unofficial extra day on the Monday preceding or Friday following respectively. Companies and banks will be open, but probably under-staffed.
Weekend -Sunday