Official Festa della Repubblica event

WHEN: Tuesday, 2 June 2009

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The consulate of Italy hosts it official Italian National Day event. Festa della Repubblica (literally Festivity of the Republic) is celebrated in Italy on the second of June each year. The day commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage in 1946, in which the Italian people were called to the polls to decide on the form of government, following the Second World War.