✦ zenith calendar · the italy almanac
the days the state's laws fix, in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in its own words.
italy is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds italy's national public holidays as the state's laws fix them, with saint francis of assisi's day from 2026. italy does not move a holiday that falls on a weekend, and each city keeps its own patron saint's day, which is not here.
its dates come from the published law, not worked out on your phone; easter monday follows the published western easter table. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian · fixed dates, with easter monday from the western easter table
natale
25 december
the nativity of the lord: after easter the greatest feast of the year, and in italy the most loved family day of all.
on the eve families share a supper without meat, often fish, before midnight mass. the presepe stands in homes and churches, and the day is a long lunch with family, ending with panettone, pandoro and torrone.
pasquetta · the lunedì dell'angelo
the monday after easter
the monday of the angel, called by everyone pasquetta, little easter. italy has kept it as a national holiday since 1949.
many go to mass, where the alleluia of easter rings out again. then comes the gita fuori porta: families and friends head to the countryside, the hills or the sea for a picnic or a grill.
festa della repubblica
2 june
italy's national day, marking the birth of the republic in the referendum of june 1946, the first time women voted with men to choose the shape of the nation.
in rome the president lays a laurel wreath at the altare della patria, a parade passes along the via dei fori imperiali, and the frecce tricolori draw the green, white and red across the sky.
ferragosto
15 august
the day the church celebrates mary taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven. for all italians it is also ferragosto, the heart of the summer holidays.
catholics go to mass, and many towns carry the image of the madonna assunta through the streets. for almost everyone it is a day away, at the beach, in the mountains or at a long lunch, and the cities fall quiet.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, italy puts its days on their dates on that ring, in rose. its mark is its flag, 🇮🇹.
each holiday carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition or the country itself tells it, and how it is kept.
on a new install, your phone's own country starts switched on. if your phone's language setting names italy as its region, italy starts lit; anywhere else it waits in the archive, whole.
italy arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it from its chip. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
italy shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
italy is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
italy is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
italy (national holidays) ·
Easter Monday, pasquetta, falls on 29 March 2027. It follows the published western Easter table, and in Zenith Calendar it sits on the ring of your year in the italy almanac.
Italy's Republic Day is 2 June every year, marking the referendum of June 1946. Italy does not move a holiday that falls on a weekend.
Ferragosto is 15 August every year, the feast of the Assumption and the heart of Italy's summer holidays.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called italy: the national public holidays as Italy's laws fix them, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Italy holds the state's national public holidays. Catholic holds the Roman calendar's solemnities, the Church's own days. They are separate almanacs, so you can light either or both.
No. Each Italian city keeps its own patron saint's day, and those are not in the italy almanac. It holds the national holidays only.
On a new install, the first page asks which almanacs start lit. If your phone's language setting names Italy as its region, the italy almanac starts switched on; otherwise it waits in the archive until you light it.
The fixed days are the ones Italy's laws set, and Easter Monday follows the published western Easter table. Nothing is worked out on your phone.