Spain will have a total of nine national public holidays in 2014 with two of those falling on a Saturday:
January 1st (Wednesday)
January 6th (Epiphany, Monday)
April 18th (Good Friday)
May 1st (Labour Day, Thursday)
August 15th (Assumption of Mary, Friday)
November 1st (All Saints Day, Saturday)
December 6th (Constitution Day, Saturday)
December 8th (Immaculate Conception, Monday)
December 25th (Thursday).
Three of Spain's 2014 national public holidays fall during the week and two are to be celebrated on Saturday.
This means on a national level there will only be four so-called 'puentes' or long weekends.
Spain's National Day, October 12 will, for example, not be a national holiday in 2014 because it falls on a Sunday. But October 13th (Monday) will be a holiday in Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Castile and León and Extremadura.
Jueves Santo (Holy Thursday) or April 17th, meanwhile, will be a holiday in all of Spain's regions except Catalonia and Valencia.