Italy celebrates Festa della Repubblica, Italy's Republic Day, with a national public holiday on Wednesday 2 June 2021. This year marks the 75th edition of the annual event which commemorates the day in 1946 when Italians voted in favour of a republic and against the monarchy which had been discredited during world war two.

The national event will see President Sergio Mattarella lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Vittoriano monument in Piazza Venezia at 10.00 on the morning of 2 June. Last year Mattarella made a private visit to Codogno, in the northern Lodi province of Lombardy, where Italy's first covid-19 patient was diagnosed.