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Date and time notation in Italy records the date using the day–month–year format (31 gennaio 2025 or 31/1/2025). The time is written using the 24-hour clock (20:15); in spoken language and informal contexts, the 12-hour clock is more commonly adopted, but without using "a.m." or "p.m." suffixes (8:15).
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]
Italy alternates between Central European Time (Italian: Tempo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+01:00) and Central European Summer Time (Italian: Orario Estivo dell'Europa Centrale, UTC+02:00), because it follows the European Summer Time annual Daylight saving time (Italian: ora legale) procedure. As such Italy begins observing Central European Summer ...
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Get a taste of Palermo, Italy, with an insider market tour, street food, and sweets in a secluded convent.
April 25 has long been a historic day in Venice – the date is not just Italy’s Liberation day, but it’s also the feast day of the city’s patron saint, St. Mark. ... Venetian residents now ...
The area that is now Venice was originally the home of Paleo-Indians, with evidence of their presence dating back to 8200 BCE. [11] As thousands of years passed, and the climate changed and some of the Pleistocene animals that the Indians hunted became extinct, the descendants of the Paleo-Indians found new ways to create stone and bone weapons to cope with their changing environment.
Angelina Jolie has touched down in Italy for the Venice Film Festival. The actress, 49, is in town to celebrate her biographical drama Maria , which will premiere at the annual event on Thursday ...