Many tourists, going to Italy, specially plan a trip to certain dates in order to get closer to the national color, get acquainted with folk traditions or special holiday dishes of national cuisine. BlogoItaliano already talked about some of the main holidays of the Italian year in the first part of this article, but there were too many of them, and in order not to lose in quality, we decided to postpone half of the holidays for the second part ... Republic Day, June 2 At the very beginning of summer, Italians were magnificent and solemnly celebrate Republic Day: on this day they recall the events that occurred in 1946 - on election day June 1, the country forever said goodbye to the monarchy and switched to a republican form of government.