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How many working days in year 2011?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2011 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2011.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Epifania : Thursday, 6 January, 2011
2. Lunedì di Pasqua : Monday, 25 April, 2011
3. Festa della Repubblica Italia : Thursday, 2 June, 2011
4. Ferragosto o Assunzione : Monday, 15 August, 2011
5. Ognissanti o Tutti i Santi : Tuesday, 1 November, 2011
6. Immacolata Concezione : Thursday, 8 December, 2011
7. Santo Stefano : Monday, 26 December, 2011

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Capodanno : Saturday, 1 January, 2011
2. Festa del lavoro : Sunday, 1 May, 2011
3. Santo Natale : Sunday, 25 December, 2011