Dec. 8 Immaculate Conception Observance Brings Local Closures and Traffic Plans Across Brazil

Overview

• Thirteen state capitals will treat Monday, December 8, as a local holiday, including Salvador, São Luís, Aracaju, Maceió, Cuiabá, Recife, Manaus, Belém, Macapá, Boa Vista, João Pessoa, Teresina and Belo Horizonte.
• Municipal offices will suspend service in cities where the holiday is decreed, with essential operations such as urgent health care, transit enforcement and sanitation maintained on adjusted schedules.
• In Salvador, the archbishop will preside an 8 a.m. solemn mass followed by a procession, and Transalvador will enforce roadblocks and parking bans in the Comércio area from early morning through the afternoon.
• Maceió’s DMTT set special bus operations for the holiday, with most lines on a Sunday timetable and selected routes running terminal departures between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.
• Local rules detail service changes city by city: São Luís formalized the holiday by decree, Cuiabá will keep UPAs and policlínicas open while closing other services, and Aracaju set reduced hours for markets as supermarkets open normally with urgent hospital care 24 hours.