Holidays in Italian

Ciao! Tutto bene? Welcome to the Rocket Italian lesson on how to say different holidays in Italian. Italy is a mainly Catholic country and as such, there are many religious holidays celebrated throughout the year.

Today we’ll go over these and several other holidays that you might find just as important as the people in Italy do.

How to pronounce the different holidays in Italian

Here are some of the common Italian holidays to get you started. Further on in this lesson we will look at the pronunciation of these and more Italian holidays.

Il Capodanno - New Year's Day
Il Natale - Christmas
Il Mercoledì delle Ceneri - Ash Wednesday
La Domenica delle Palme - Palm Sunday
Il Giovedì Santo - Holy Thursday
Il Venerdì Santo - Good Friday
La Pasqua - Easter
Ognissanti - All Saints Day
La festa del lavoro - Labor Day
La festa del 4 luglio - Independence Day (4th of July)

Let's get started...

That’s it for this lesson on holidays in Italian. I hope you learned a lot! To practice these new words, try marking your calendar with the holidays and important days in your life in Italian. You’ll start to remember them automatically after some practice!

For more lessons on Italian vocabulary I recommend these!

Know your Italian hotel vocabulary with this lesson!
Going on a spending spree? Know your vocabulary to do with shopping in Italian
Understand signs in Italian. A super handy lesson (especially if you need to go to the toilet!)

A presto!

Maria DiLorenzi and the Rocket Italian Team

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