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1 January: New Year
February / March: Ash Wednesday
March / April: Good Friday and Easter Monday
23 May: International Workers' Day
1 August: Emancipation Day
6 August: Independence Day
3rd Monday of October: Heroes' Day
25 December: Christmas
26 December: Boxing Day
Montego Bay, located on the northeast coast of Jamaica, is characterised by its white sandy beaches surrounded by floral vegetation and palm tree dotted hills. It is worth visiting St. James Parish Church, The Cage (a nineteenth-century dungeon), Rose Hall (a plantation mansion owned by Annie Palmer) and art galleries like the Gallery of West Indian Art and the Bay Gallery. And don't forget Doctor's Cave Beach and the Luminous Lagoon in the Martha Brae River, among other spots.