Sources: Boletin Oficial De La Rioja (La Rioja) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Consejería de Industria, Innovación y Empleo of Spain's Autonomous Region of La Rioja, through its spokesperson, Begoña Martínez Arregui, has announced its annual list of regional public holidays in Spain's La Rioja for the upcoming calendar year 2017 ("días inhábiles a efectos laborales, de carácter retribuido y no recuperable, del calendario del próximo año"). [full story]