Local Festivals 2027: Muro de Alcoy completes the provincial calendar

The Territorial Directorate of Housing, Employment, Youth and Equality of Alicante has expanded the 2027 calendar of paid and non-recoverable local holidays to incorporate the municipality of Muro de Alcoy, the only one that had remained undetermined in the initial resolution. The decision is formalized through the Resolution of November 3, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante (BOP) No. 215, of November 11, 2026, Section II. Autonomous Administration, pages 1 to 3, with official reference 8604/2026, and will take effect from the day following its publication.

The regulation expands the Resolution of October 29, 2026, which approved the provincial calendar and was published in BOP No. 210, of November 4, 2026 (reference 8352/2026). In that first listing, the section for Muro de Alcoy appeared literally as “UNDETERMINED,” because as of that date, the agreement of the municipal plenary fixing the dates of the festivities and its certification had not been received.

The legal framework invoked by the Territorial Directorate is Article 37.2 of the recast text of the Workers’ Statute Law, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2015, and Article 46 of Royal Decree 2001/1983, which allow up to two paid and non-recoverable local holidays per year per municipality, upon the proposal of each city council’s plenary and prior official publication. To this is added Decree 42/2026, of March 20, of the Consell, which sets the labor calendar of the Valencian Community for 2027 and refers the choice of those two days to the local corporations, and Article 30.7 of Law 39/2015, which requires the incorporation of local non-working days into the calculation of deadlines. The processing corresponds to the Territorial Employment Service, according to Order 2/2026, of May 12, which develops Decree 19/2026, of February 13.

The two holidays of Muro de Alcoy

The annex of the expansion sets the following dates for Muro de Alcoy:

• May 10, 2027, Monday.
• May 11, 2027, Tuesday.
• Reason: Moors and Christians festivities in honor of the Mare de Déu dels Desamparats.

With this incorporation, the provincial repertoire is closed, which already included the rest of the towns in November, in addition to the EATIM of La Xara and Jesús Pobre, dependent on Dénia.

Effects on deadlines, offices, and economic activity

The resolution emphasizes that local holidays affect not only the employment relationship but also the determination of business days for the calculation of administrative and judicial deadlines, the validity of procedural acts of public powers and private individuals, and the opening of public offices and courts, in addition to establishing the non-working days for legal and commercial traffic in each municipal district.

A festive map municipality by municipality

The calendar approved in the initial resolution includes two days per locality, based on a wide variety of criteria. Some examples from the annex:

• Alicante: April 8, Thursday, Santa Faz; June 24, Thursday, Fogueres de Sant Joan.
• Elche: April 5, Monday, San Vicente; December 29, Wednesday, Venida de la Virgen.
• Alcoy: April 24, Saturday; April 26, Monday.
• Benidorm: November 15 and 16, Monday and Tuesday.
• Elda: September 8 and 9, Wednesday and Thursday, patron saint festivities.
• Orihuela: July 17, Saturday, Gloriosa Enseña del Oriol; September 8, Wednesday, Virgen de Monserrate.
• Torrevieja: April 5, Monday, San Vicente Ferrer; July 16, Friday, Virgen del Carmen.
• Dénia: July 7, Wednesday, Santísima Sangre; August 16, Monday, San Roque.

Publication and appeal process

Against the resolution, which does not exhaust administrative remedies, an administrative appeal (recurso de alzada) may be filed before the General Directorate of Labor, Cooperativism, and Occupational Safety within one month from the day following its publication, in accordance with articles 121 and 122 of Law 39/2015. Local administrations cannot appeal via administrative channels and must submit a reasoned request within two months, according to article 44 of Law 29/1998. The text was signed in Alicante on November 5, 2026, by the territorial director, Cortés María Martínez de las Heras.

The practical relevance is immediate for companies, offices, and administrations: the two days for Muro de Alcoy are already considered non-working days for the purposes of deadlines and labor activity, and the 2027 provincial calendar is now complete with no pending exceptions.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Alicante, No. 215, of November 11, 2026, sec. II. Autonomous Administration, pp. 1-3 (official reference: 8604/2026).