Portugal Day

The Day Portugal (Portuguese Dia de Portugal, de Camões e the Comunidades Portuguesas: Day Portugal, Camões and the community of the Portuguese) is the Portuguese national holiday. Although always celebrated throughout the country on June 10, he is celebrated all over the world by millions of emigrants abroad. Primarily, it is the death of the deceased in the 1580 national poet Luís de Camões.

During the dictatorship of the Estado Novo of 1933 until the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974 June 10 was celebrated as the "Day of the Portuguese race."

After completion of the legislative work after the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic on October 5, 1910, a decree was published on October 12, which summarizes the national holidays. Some holidays have been eliminated, especially the religious, to reduce the influence of the Catholic Church in a secularized society.

In this decree the following holidays were recorded: January 1, World Day of Peace; January 31, the day of the failed revolution of Porto and day of the martyrs of the Republic; October 5 Dia dos Heróis da República (Day of the Heroes of the Republic ); December 1 is dedicated to the Day of autonomy (independence ) and Dia da bandeira ( Flag Day ) and December 25, which was regarded as a day of family, was also an attempt to secularize the religious Christmas.

The city of Lisbon has decided to establish 10 June in honor of Camões as a city holiday, the famous poet who wrote the national epic The Lusiads.