{"id":53582,"date":"2020-04-07T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/?p=53582"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:50:29","slug":"public-holidays-in-spain-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/blog\/public-holidays-in-spain-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Holidays in Spain 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish people love their public holidays and festivities and these are great times of the year to visit Spain as a tourist. Spain has a wide variety of national and regional celebrations and we are going to take a look at the Public Holidays in Spain 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

12 public holidays<\/h4>\n

Spanish public holidays<\/a> differ depending on each region and the number of permitted public holidays in Spain has varied through the years. The Spanish government granted 12 Public Holidays in Spain 2020<\/strong>. Eight of these are national public holidays selected by the national government and the other four are regional public holidays selected by local government.<\/p>\n

Regional holidays<\/h4>\n

Regional public holidays tend to coincide with local festivals<\/a>. For example, Las Fallas<\/em> in Valencia (March), La Feria de Abril<\/em> in Sevilla (April), La Fiesta de San Ferm\u00edn<\/em> in Pamplona (July), La Tomatina<\/em><\/a> in Bu\u00f1ol (August) and Aste Nagusia<\/em> in Bilbao (August).These are times of the year when those communities really let their hair down and put on a fantastic show for the tourists. The streets are packed and nobody wants to think about work, so a day or two of public holidays are vital.<\/p>\n

Los Puentes<\/h4>\n

Spanish people love their public holidays even more when they can take a \u2018Puente<\/em>\u2019. Puente<\/em> literally means Bridge<\/em> and is the name given to taking extra days holiday when a public holiday falls on a Thursday or a Tuesday (A bridge<\/em> between the holiday and the weekend). It is agreed that there is no point going to work on a Friday when you are off on a Thursday and no point going to work on a Monday when you are off on a Tuesday. Previous Spanish President, Mariano Rajoy, tried and failed to eradicate Puentes <\/em>by moving all public holidays to Mondays.<\/p>\n

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La Semana Santa (Holy Week\/Easter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

National holidays<\/h4>\n

The eight national Public Holidays in Spain 2020<\/strong> that must be respected by all autonomous Spanish communities are as follows: El D\u00eda del A\u00f1o Nuevo<\/em> on Jan 1st<\/sup> (New Year\u2019s Day), El D\u00eda de Reyes<\/em> on Jan 6th<\/sup> (King\u2019s Day\/Epiphany), El Viernes Santo<\/em> on April 10th<\/sup> (Good Friday), El D\u00eda del Trabajador <\/em>on May 1st<\/sup> (Labour Day), La<\/em> Asunci\u00f3n de la Virgen<\/em> on Aug 15th<\/sup> (Assumption of Mary), La Fiesta Nacional de Espa\u00f1a<\/em> on Oct 12th<\/sup> (National Day of Spain), El D\u00eda de la Inmaculada Concepci\u00f3n<\/em> on Dec 8th<\/sup> (Day of the Immaculate Conception), El D\u00eda de Navidad<\/em><\/a> on Dec 25th<\/sup> (Christmas Day).<\/p>\n

You will recognise most of the national public holidays. Ones that you may be less familiar with are La Asunci\u00f3n de la Virgen<\/em> which celebrates the Roman Catholic belief that after dying the body of the Virgin Mary was \u2018assumed\u2019 into heaven and reunited with her soul, La Fiesta Nacional de Espa\u00f1a <\/em>(also known as Columbus Day or Hispanic Day) which celebrates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12th<\/sup> 1492, and El D\u00eda de la Inmaculada Concepci\u00f3n<\/em> which celebrates the Roman Catholic belief in the \u2018immaculate conception\u2019 of the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spanish people love their public holidays and festivities and these are great times of the year to visit Spain as a tourist. Spain has a wide variety of national and regional celebrations and we are going to take a look at the Public Holidays in Spain 2020. 12 public holidays Spanish public holidays differ depending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":53601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[1630,1636,1644,1685],"class_list":["post-53582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-spain","tag-spanish-culture","tag-spanish-festivals","tag-spanish-holidays","tag-spanish-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53606,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53582\/revisions\/53606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogoespana.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}