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The Italian parliament has voted to reinstate 4 October as a national public holiday, restoring the day off in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi after almost half a century.<\/p>\n
The Italian senate on\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday gave final approval to a bill launched by the centre-right Noi Moderati party after it was passed in the lower house last\u00a0week with 247 votes in favour and just two against.<\/p>\n The bill, backed by the ruling right-wing parties, calls for cultural initiatives dedicated to Italy’s patron saint and the values he embodied: peace, fraternity, inclusion and environmental protection.<\/p>\n The public holiday on 4 October, which was removed from Italy’s calendar of public holidays in 1977 for economic reasons, will be reinstated as of next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n The move, designed to\u00a0coincide with the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis, brings to 12 the number of national public holidays in Italy.<\/p>\n The date falls on a Sunday in 2026, meaning that workers and students won’t see any tangible difference until 2027 when there will be a long weekend in honour of St Francis.<\/p>\n Photo credit: godongphoto \/ Shutterstock.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Italian senate gives green light to bill ahead of 800th anniversary of St Francis of Assisi. The Italian parliament has voted to reinstate 4 October as a national public holiday, restoring the day off in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi after almost half a century. The Italian senate on\u00a0Wednesday gave final approval to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[25836,10017,7879,2547,24218,5947,25835],"class_list":["post-37772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-bring","tag-francis","tag-holiday","tag-italy","tag-october","tag-public","tag-votes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}