Rome marks 80th edition of Liberation Day in 2025.

Italy on 25 April celebrates the Festa della Liberazione which marks the country’s liberation from German occupation and fascist rule at the end of world war two.

A public holiday across Italy, all state schools and offices are closed on Friday 25 April, with some Italians planning a "super ponte" by taking three days off after Monday 21 April, a national holiday for Easter Monday or Pasquetta.

Liberation Day is marked in Rome with a ceremony at the Altare della Patria at 09.30 when Italian president Sergio Mattarella will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The event will result in street closures and bus detours in the area around Piazza Venezia.

Mattarella will also mark the holiday with a ceremony at midday in the northern Italian city of Genoa.

• Why does Italy celebrate Liberation Day on 25 April?

On the morning of 25 April, the National Partisan Association of Italy (ANPI) will pay homage to the victims of the massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine where the Nazis murdered 335 anti-fascist prisoners, Jews and civilians on 23 March 1944.

This solemn event is followed with a public gathering, from 09.30, at Largo Bompiani in the Tor Marancia district for live music, readings and a rally at 10.00 (see ANPI website for details).

Italy's state-run museums and archaeological sites will be open to the public for free on 25 April, for the third year in a row, the culture ministry has confirmed.

This year Rome will celebrate the Italian Resistance with the Festa della Resistenza, a three-day festival in the San Lorenzo district from 25-27 April.

The 2025 programme, available on the city website, includes more than 80 free events "to remember and share the founding values ​​of the Italian Resistance, right in one of the places that saw the partisans fight with courage."

Rome also hosts the 78th edition of the Gran Premio della Liberazione, involving cyclists of all ages taking part in a route that begins and ends at the Baths of Caracalla.

Since becoming mayor in 2022, Gualtieri has marked the Festa della Liberazione by visiting the Historic Museum of the Liberation of Rome, a former SS prison which documents the persecution of Jews and Resistance figures tortured there during the Nazi occupation of Rome from 1943-1944.