Calendar 2008
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Summer Holidays 21st June – 14th September 2008
Public holidays - Canaries
| 1st January | Tuesday |
Día de Año Nuevo |
New Year’s Day |
| 7th January* | Monday | Día de reyes, Epifanía | Epiphany, The Three Wise Men |
| 19th March | Wednesday | Día de San José | Feast of Saint Joseph |
| 20th March |
Thursday | Jueves Santo | Maundy Thursday |
| 21st March |
Friday | Viernes Santo | Good Friday |
| 23rd March |
Sunday | Domingo de Pascua de Resurreccíon | Easter Sunday |
| 1st May | Thursday | Día del Trabajo | May Day |
| 11th May |
Sunday | Pentecostés | Whitsun |
| 22nd May |
Thursday |
Corpus Cristi | Corpus Christi |
| 30th May | Friday | Día de Canarias | Regional public holiday of the Canaries |
| 25th July ** | Friday | Día del Apóstol Santiago | St. Jacob |
| 15th August | Friday | Fiesta de la Asunción | Day of the Assumption |
| 12th October | Friday | Día del Hispanidad | Memorial Day of the Discovery of America |
| 1st November | Saturday | Día de Todos los Santos | All Saints’ Day |
| 6th December | Saturday | Día de la Constitucíon | Constitution Day |
| 8th December | Monday | Inmaculada Concepción | Feast of the Immaculate Conception |
| 24th December |
Wednesday | Nochebuena | Christmas Eve |
| 25th December | Thursday | Navidad | Christmas Day |
| 31st December | Wednesday | Nochevieja | New Year’s Eve |
* takes place usually on 6th January, in 2008 it was transferred to Monday, 7th January, since the 6th of January was a Sunday.
** The Spanish public holiday 25th July (Feast of the Apostle Jakobus) is replaced on the Canaries on each island through a different public holiday:
El Hierro: 24th September – Nuestra Señora de los Reyes
Fuerteventura: 20th September – Nuestra Señora de la Peña
Gran Canaria:
8th September – Nuestra Señora del Pino
La Gomera: 6th October – Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Lanzarote: 15th September – Virgen de los Dolores, Nuestra Señora de los Volcanes
La Palma: 5th August – Nuestra Señora de las Nieves
Teneriffa: 2nd February – Nuestra Señora de Candelaria (Patron Saint of the archipelago)
Fiestas and Celebrations on La Palma Infos on traditional and popular Fiestas on La Palma.
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School Holidays in Great Britain 2008
are not centrally regulated, but are fixed separately by each community and school. The British government has put up for England an online-service, with which it is possible to inquire about all the holiday dates of the individual schools. The school holidays for Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland have to be obtained directly at the local authorities, whose contact dates you will get e.g. through the Internet. Onlineservice bereitgestellt, mit dem man die Ferientermine der einzelnen Schulen abfragen kann. Die Schulferien für Wales, Schottland und Nordirland muss man direkt bei den jeweiligen lokalen Autoritäten erfragen, deren Kontaktdaten man auch dort erhält.
School Holidays in the Netherlands 2008
The Netherlands are separated, as regards their school holidays, into three regions: North, Central and South. In addition, the Dutch holiday dates differ between primary and grammar schools accordingly. niederländischen Ferientermine teilweise für Grund- und Oberschulen auf der anderen Seite.
| Summer Holidays 2008 |
Autumn Holidays 2008 | Winter Holidays 2008 |
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| North | Primary School 28th June – 10th August
Grammar School 28th June – 17th August |
18th October – 26th October | 20th December 08 – 4th January 2009 |
| Central | Primary School 19th July – 31st August
Grammar School 12th July – 31st August |
11th October – 19th October | 20th December 08 – 4th January 2009 |
| South | Primary School 15th July – 17th August
Grammar School, 15th July – 24th August |
11th October – 19th October |
20th December 2008 – 4th January 2009 |
School Holidays in Belgium
Summer holidays 1st July – 31st August 2008
Autumn holidays 27th October – 31st October 2008
Winter holidays 22nd December 2008 – 2nd January 2009
School Holidays and Public Holidays – General Info
The setting of the school holidays is handled in different states despite some national particularities according to a similar pattern. In the whole of Europe, the holidays are concentrated on three time periods: summer, Christmas and New Year as well as spring and Easter. In addition, in most of the states you find autumn- and winter holidays or carnival holidays and rather seldom holidays in the last quarter of the school year or during Whitsun. In addition to these holiday times, in all states there are up to ten special days, which in general correspond to legal and religious public holidays. In some states, these festivals are movable.
Holidays worldwide - online calender school holidays
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