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Date Name English Dutch French German 1 January (fixed) New Year's Day: Nieuwjaar: Nouvel An: Neujahr: 23 March – 26 April (floating Monday using Computus) Easter Monday: Paasmaandag: Lundi de Pâques: Ostermontag: 1 May (fixed) Labour Day: Dag van de arbeid: Fête du Travail: Tag der Arbeit: 40 days after Easter (floating Thursday) Ascension ...
The January sales period starts on December 27 and can last up to 60 days. [55] The Striezelmarkt in Dresden, Germany, one of the first Christmas markets in the world. In Germany, the Winterschlussverkauf (winter sale before the season ends) was one of two official sales periods (the other being the Sommerschlussverkauf, the summer sales). It ...
The Brussels Christmas tree (French: Sapin de Noël de Bruxelles; Dutch: Kerstboom van Brussel) is a Christmas tree erected annually on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (main square) of Brussels, Belgium. It has traditionally been a real tree either from the Ardennes forest , from the city of Helsinki or from different countries as diplomatic gift ...
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Although most places in the UK do tend to see some snow in the winter, it generally falls in January and February. However white Christmases do occur, on average every 6 years. [22] Christmas 2009 was a white Christmas in some parts of Britain, [25] with thick lying snow which easterly winds had brought over the previous week. Travel over much ...
Many families begin the celebration on Heiligabend (literally, Holy Evening, or Christmas Eve) in the afternoon or evening. Although there are two legal holidays in Germany, [Austria], most cantons of Switzerland and Liechtenstein for Christmas, Christmas Eve is not one of them, and in Switzerland, many companies and stores are open for a half-day in the morning until 4 p.m, after which ...
All Belgian weeks begin on Monday at 00:00. In written language, time is expressed exclusively in 24-hour using a colon to separate hours and minutes (HH:MM). It is written 09:09/21:21.
1875: birth of Pierre de Caters; first Belgian to fly an aircraft; 1898: death of Georges Rodenbach, Symbolic poet and novelist, author of Bruges-la-Morte; 1978: death of Raymond Braine, soccer player, the first Belgian professional player from 1930 on, when he played for Sparta Prague; he played 54 times for the Belgium national football team