Next year’s holidays
With summer past, we are already thinking about Christmas and the new year to come. Calendar in hand, let’s figure out how best to plan for the holidays. The year 2025 includes 10 midweek holidays, a full 2 more than last year, great for planning some travel. After New Year’s Eve (Wednesday), we will be able to enjoy Epiphany at home on Monday January 6, taking advantage of a long weekend, as happened in 2023.
Then on Monday, April 21, we will finally be able to celebrate Easter and continue eating the chocolate from the eggs from the day before. In 2025, in fact, Easter will be Sunday, April 20. Also the same month, Friday, April 25 we will celebrate the Anniversary of the Liberation of Italy.
The Workers’ Day, May 1, will happen on Thursday. The June 2 (The Italian Republic Day) will be on Monday and the June 29 on Sunday. The feast of St. Peter and St. Paul will not give a day off from work (to those who work Monday through Friday).
No vacation in July, but maybe some of us will already be on vacation (
). The following month comes the long-awaited August Holiday, Friday the 15th. September and October no escape from the city for any bridges or holidays. On the first day of November, however, we will celebrate “All Saints” (Saturday), perhaps eating some delicious roasted chestnuts.
In December we end 2025 on a high note with the Immaculate Conception (Monday), Christmas and Boxing Day on Thursday, December 25 and Friday, December 26.
Holiday Calendar 2025
- New Year’s Day: Wednesday, January 1
- Epiphany (Befana): Monday, January 6
- Easter: Sunday, April 20
- Easter Monday (Pasquetta): Monday, April 21
- Liberation Day: Friday, April 25
- Workers’ Day: Thursday, May 1
- Republic Day: Monday, June 2
- St. Peter and Paul (patronal feast of Rome): Sunday, June 29
- Ferragosto (Assumption): Friday, August 15
- All Saints (All Saints’ Day): Saturday, November 1
- Immaculate Conception: Monday, December 8
- Christmas: Thursday, December 25
- St. Stephen’s Day: Friday, December 26
These vacations offer opportunities for extended bridges and vacations, especially when they fall near weekends.
Where to celebrate if you live in Rome
Rome is a very big city that never ceases to amaze us. During the Christmas season it is nice to walk through the streets of the center and admire the illuminations. At New Year’s Eve, then, we celebrate in a big way with a musical concert featuring familiar faces. For Epiphany, you can’t miss the marketplaces in Piazza Navona…
Spring festivities capture all the beauty of the Eternal City in bloom. Back to open its gates the roseto municipal and Roman parks become colorful thanks to the many little flowers present. Not to be missed: the azaleas of the Spanish Steps.
In fine weather then we go to the Roman coast, for a aperitif by the sea or a pranzetto at the beach.
In autumn the spectacle of the foliage brightens the view!