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CELEBRATION DAYS FOR YEAR 2010:

January 1 New Year’s Day
April 2 Good Friday
April 4 Easter
April 5 Easter Monday
May 1 Labor Day; Convocation of the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Latvia
May 4 Day of Proclamation of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia
May 9 Mother’s Day
June 23 Ligo Day (summer solstice)
June 24 Jani Day (summer solstice)
September 12 Father’s Day
November 18       Day of Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia
December 24 Christmas Eve
December 25 First Christmas Day (winter solstice)
December 26 Second Christmas Day (winter solstice)
December 31 New Year’s Eve
 
COMMEMORATION DAYS FOR YEAR 2010:
January 20 Commemoration Day of the Defenders of Barricades in 1991
January 26 Day of International (de jure) Recognition of the Republic of Latvia
March 25 Commemoration Day of the Victims of Communist Terror
May 8 Crushing of Nazism and Commemoration Day of Victims of World War II
May 9 Day of Europe
June 14 Commemoration Day of the Victims of Communist Terror
June 17 Day of Occupation of the Republic of Latvia
June 22 Commemoration Day of the Heroes (commemoration of Cēsis battles)
July 4 Commemoration Day of Genocide against the Jews
August 21 Day of Adoption of the Constitutional Law “On the adoption of state status of the Republic of Latvia” and of Restoration of the actual independence of the Republic of Latvia
September 1 Day of Knowledge
September 22 Baltic Unity Day
October 1 International Day of Older Persons
November 11 Latvian Freedom Fighters’ Remembrance Day - Lacplesis Day
December 6 Commemoration Day of the Victims of the Genocide of communist totalitarian regime directed against the Latvian nation

The most magnificent of festivities is Midsummer’s Night that we have been celebrating annually for thousands of years. Quite frequently it is raining on the night of June 23 all over Latvia. That doesn't keep us from leaving our homes for the countryside. Once the Sun has set we light a bonfire and keep it ablaze till dawn, we sing, dance, eat caraway cheese and drink beer. Women adorn themselves with wreaths of wildflowers, men make theirs out of oak leaves.

At Easter we swing and have egg-fights.

And we also celebrate name days.

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