Curaçao : 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
Date | Name | Kind | More |
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Friday September 30, 2022 | Mid-term holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Tuesday December 20, 2022 | Christmas holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday December 25, 2022 | Christmas Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Monday December 26, 2022 | Second Christmas Day | Secular holiday | |
Sunday January 1, 2023 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday January 9, 2023 | Christmas holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday February 10, 2023 | Carnival holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Tuesday February 14, 2023 | Valentine's Day | cards/flowers | |
Tuesday February 14, 2023 | Carnival holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Monday February 20, 2023 | Carnival | Secular holiday | |
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday September 30, 2022
School holidays :
Christmas holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday December 20, 2022
School holidays :
Christmas Day
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Sunday December 25, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Years Day on Christmas Day.
Second Christmas Day
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Monday December 26, 2022
Secular holiday : Tweede Kerstdag
New Year's Day
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Sunday January 1, 2023
Secular holiday : The world's most widely celebrated holiday, New Years was set on January 1 by Julius Caesar because that was the date the Roman consuls took over their duties. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Christmas holiday (end)
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Monday January 9, 2023
School holidays : Calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
https://vpco.org/site/
Schooling is mandatory till age 16
schools close on Saturday
school uniforms required
Dates confirmed till Sep 2024
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Carnival holiday (beginning)
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Friday February 10, 2023
School holidays :
Valentine's Day
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Tuesday February 14, 2023
cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
Carnival holiday (end)
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Tuesday February 14, 2023
School holidays :
Carnival
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Monday February 20, 2023
Secular holiday : Www.curacaocarnival.info