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Just like St. Anthony's Day and St. John's Day, St. Peter's Day is celebrated with a traditional midsummer bonfire, where people jumps over and perform a tradition known as "Queimar a Alcachofra" (Burn the Artichoke) which symbolizes the "Good Which Fulfill". 4 July: St. Elizabeth's Day: Dia de Santa Isabel: Celebrated in Coimbra
Portugal Day, officially Portugal Day, Camões, and the Portuguese Communities (Portuguese: Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas), is the national day of Portugal celebrated annually on 10 June. It is one of the public holidays in Portugal and celebrated by Portuguese people throughout the world.
In addition to the 12 national holidays, each city or town celebrates a public holiday on the occasion of the festival of the local patron saint.For example, Rome on 29 June (Saints Peter and Paul), Milan on 7 December (Saint Ambrose), Naples on 19 September (Saint Januarius), Venice on 25 April (Saint Mark the Evangelist) and Florence on 24 June (Saint John the Baptist). [2]
NEW YORK - For the first time ever, the Day of Portugal will be celebrated in the iconic Times Square in New York City. Led by O Valor do Tempo group, proprietor of ‘The Fantastic World of the ...
On Saturday, June 8 the celebration will move to the 195 District Park, located at 120 Peck St., where the RI Day of Portugal Heritage Festival will kick off at 5 p.m.
However, the celebrations of the first National Day were delayed until 23 February and that day continues to be celebrated since. [19] Bulgaria: Liberation Day: 3 March: 1878 Ottoman Empire: Treaty of San Stefano which created the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria. [20] Independence Day: 22 September: 1908 [21] Bulgarian Declaration of ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
June 29 is the 180th day of the year ... 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. 1601–1900 ... Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)