Switzerland (Bern) : 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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Monday August 15, 2022 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Friday September 9, 2022 | Jungfrau Marathon | Sports events | |
Friday September 23, 2022 | Fall holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Monday October 17, 2022 | Fall holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Monday November 28, 2022 | Onion festival | Events, celebrations... | |
Friday December 23, 2022 | Christmas holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
Sunday December 25, 2022 | Christmas Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Monday December 26, 2022 | St Stephen's Day | Catholic or protestant | |
Sunday January 1, 2023 | New Year's Day | Secular holiday | |
Monday January 2, 2023 | Berchtoldstag | Secular holiday | |
Monday January 9, 2023 | Christmas holiday (end) | School holidays | |
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday August 15, 2022
School holidays :
Jungfrau Marathon
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Friday September 9, 2022
Sports events : Www.jungfrau-marathon.ch/ 2022 edition confirmed
Fall holiday (beginning)
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Friday September 23, 2022
School holidays :
Fall holiday (end)
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Monday October 17, 2022
School holidays :
Onion festival
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Monday November 28, 2022
Culture : Zibelemärit celebrates all things onion - and garlic. Artful wreaths, woven into braids, sometimes mixed with garlic to chase away Evil spirits and all kinds of figures made of onion are there for the taking. Sugar onion wreaths are wrapped around the neck like Hawaiian Leis. www.swiss-switzerland.com
Christmas holiday (beginning)
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Friday December 23, 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
St Stephen's Day
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Monday December 26, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Christian remembrance of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
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
Berchtoldstag
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Monday January 2, 2023
Secular holiday : A derivation of Middle High German berhttac or berhteltac, which translated the Greek epiphanias Only in Zurich, Bern, Luzern, Glarus, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn, Schaffhau, Aarhau, Thurgau, Waadt. Also concerns Neuenburg and Jura if New Year fell on a Sunday [Wikipedia]
Christmas holiday (end)
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Monday January 9, 2023
School holidays : Www.bern.ch
calendar gazetted by the Ministry of Education
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Schooling is mandatory till age 16
Usually no school on Saturday
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Dates confirmed till Sep 2024; Further dates are projected dates based on previous years
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