Public holidays · 2032
Greek Independence Day falls on Thursday, 25 March 2032 in Cyprus in 2032.
A public holiday across Cyprus: most employees have the day off.
In 2032 it falls on a Thursday, a working day.
Fixed date: it is on the same day of the year every year (25 Mar).
Saturday and Sunday · A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.
Greek Independence Day, observed on 25 March in Greece and Cyprus, commemorates the start of the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule in 1821. In the traditional account, Bishop Germanos of Patras raised the banner of revolt at the monastery of Agia Lavra on that day, although historians note that the uprising began in several places in the weeks before and that the date has a symbolic character. The anniversary is also celebrated by the Greek diaspora. It is one of the two main national holidays of Greece, with Ohi Day.
25 March is also the feast of the Annunciation, the day on which, according to the Gospel of Luke, the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would bear Jesus, so a national and a religious holiday coincide. Schools hold ceremonies with poems and songs, students march in local parades in folk costume, and in Athens there is a military parade after a wreath-laying at Syntagma Square. The traditional meal is fried salt cod with skordalia, a garlic sauce, since fish is permitted in the Orthodox Lenten fast on the Annunciation.
Everywhere in Cyprus.
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A public holiday across Cyprus: most employees have the day off.
Thursday, 25 March 2032.