Eight national holidays for 2015 – one fewer than this year
Saturday, October 25, 2014 @ 9:54 PM
NEXT year's bank holiday calendar sees eight national fiestas, or shut-down days where most people will not go to work and the majority of shops and other services will be closed.
Talks about moving national and regional holidays to a Monday, to cut down on the number of puentes, or 'bridges' whereby the public sector takes off the days in between a weekend and a bank holiday have not borne results in most cases, meaning Tuesday, January 6, 2015 will be a day off as it always has been rather than moving this to Monday, January 5.
Seven other national holidays, which cannot be moved because of their nature – such as New Year's Day, which falls on a Thursday in 2015 – include Good Friday, on April 3, Labour Day on May 1, which is also a Friday, 'Hispanic Day' to mark the conquering of the Americas on October 12, which is a Monday next year, Day of the Immaculate Conception, which is on a Tuesday in 2015, on December 8, and Christmas Day on a Friday.
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