St Piran's Day been other calls and petitions for a Cornish public holiday on 5 March. It has been suggested that a move from the May Day Bank Holiday to a St Piran's Day Bank Holiday in Cornwall would be worth £20–35 million to the Cornish economy. In December 2011 Cornwall Council voted in favour of asking the government to make St Piran's Day a bank holiday in Cornwall, should they decide to move the May Day holiday. A petition for a county wide day off at the Cornwall council website, closed with only 363 signatures, and fell far short of the 50,000
St. Martin's Day There are different concerts, a St. Martin's parade and a fireworks show. See also: Saint Martin Street in Poznań. In Portugal, St. Martin's Day is commonly associated with the celebration of the maturation of the year's wine, being traditionally the first day when the new wine can be tasted. It is celebrated, traditionally around a bonfire, eating the "magusto", chestnuts roasted under the embers of the bonfire (sometimes dry figs and walnuts), and drinking a local light alcoholic beverage called "água-pé" (literally "foot water", made by adding water to the pomace left after the juice is pressed out of the