Primo Maggio: Italy celebrates Labour Day with 1 May holiday
28 Apr, 2021
Italy marks International Workers Day with national holiday.
Italy celebrates Labour Day - known as the Festa dei Lavoratori or Festa del Lavoro - with a nationwide public holiday on 1 May.
The event, marked in more than 80 countries, is held in commemoration of the labour movement and the social and economic achievements of trade unions on behalf of workers.
The holiday on Saturday 1 May - Primo Maggio - is normally marked in Rome with a large, free May Day concert however this year - due to covid-19 - the annual
Simona Ventura (fifth night).
The whole week will be without audience due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the very first time that the contest will be held in an empty theatre.
A few notable comebacks are to be underlined: Arisa (winner in 2009 in the Nuove Proposte and again in 2014 among the Campioni), Francesco Renga (winner in 2005) and Francesca Michielin (winner in 2016 and Italian representative to the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm). An anecdote:
Orietta Berti first took part to the Festival of Sanremo back in
1965 with the song
Io ti darò di più, competing a total of 11 times. This Wednesday’s will be her 12th appearance.
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