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Greece : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months

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    European Truck Ban: 22:00 to 22:00 on Sundays, public holidays & vacations departures/returns
  • Weekend: Saturday & Sunday
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    Monday march 18, 2024Shrove Monday/Green MondaySecular holiday
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    Monday march 25, 2024Independence DayNational Day
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    Sunday march 31, 2024Daylight Saving TimeSpecial Events
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    Friday april 26, 2024Easter holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Friday may 3, 2024Orthodox Good FridayOrthodox
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    Saturday may 4, 2024Orthodox Holy SaturdayOrthodox
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    Sunday may 5, 2024Orthodox EasterOrthodox
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    Monday may 6, 2024Orthodox Easter MondayOrthodox
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    Tuesday may 7, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Sunday may 12, 2024Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Monday may 13, 2024Easter holiday (end)School holidays
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    Thursday may 23, 2024National Day of the VlachsEvents, celebrations...
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    Sunday june 9, 2024European electionsSpecial Events
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    Sunday june 16, 2024Fathers' Daycards/flowers
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    Friday june 21, 2024Summer holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Sunday june 23, 2024Orthodox PentecostSecular holiday
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    Monday june 24, 2024Whit MondayOrthodox
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    Thursday august 15, 2024AssumptionCatholic
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    Monday september 2, 2024Summer holiday (end)School holidays
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    Thursday september 5, 2024BP Ultimate Acropolis Rally of GreeceSports events
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    Shrove Monday/Green Monday

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    Monday march 18, 2024
    Secular holiday : Green Monday is the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Great Lent. Traditionally it is considered to mark the beginning of the spring season.

    Independence Day

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    Monday march 25, 2024
    Secular holiday : Upraise against the Ottoman rule in 1821 Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

    Daylight Saving Time

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    Sunday march 31, 2024
    Special Events : At 1:00 am local times

    Easter holiday (beginning)

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    Friday april 26, 2024
    School holidays : www.lfh.gr

    Orthodox Good Friday

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    Friday may 3, 2024
    Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.

    Orthodox Holy Saturday

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    Saturday may 4, 2024
    Orthodox : Not a paid holiday

    Orthodox Easter

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    Sunday may 5, 2024
    Orthodox : Paid holiday

    Orthodox Easter Monday

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    Monday may 6, 2024
    Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter(or Pascha).The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy.The Easter breads are a worldwide Orthodox tradition as well.This bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place:Midnight Office,Rush Procession,Matins & Divine Liturgy.After the service,the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home.The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days.One egg takes place before the Easter lunch.Each person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of good luck.The traditional Orthodox Paschal greeting is: Christ is Risen! .The answer is: Indeed He is Risen . May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.

    Labor Day/May Day

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    Tuesday may 7, 2024
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    Mothers' Day

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    Sunday may 12, 2024
    cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914

    Easter holiday (end)

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    Monday may 13, 2024
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    National Day of the Vlachs

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    Thursday may 23, 2024
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    European elections

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    Sunday june 9, 2024
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    Fathers' Day

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    Sunday june 16, 2024
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    Summer holiday (beginning)

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    Friday june 21, 2024
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    Orthodox Pentecost

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    Sunday june 23, 2024
    Secular holiday : Paid holiday

    Whit Monday

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    Monday june 24, 2024
    Orthodox : In Cyprus, Kataklysma is the festival of the floods in seaside towns

    Assumption

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    Thursday august 15, 2024
    Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.

    Summer holiday (end)

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    Monday september 2, 2024
    School holidays :

    BP Ultimate Acropolis Rally of Greece

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    Thursday september 5, 2024
    Sports events : World Rally Championship - lasts 3 days - in Athens https://www.wrc.com/ Junior WCR 2024 edition confirmed