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Monday, September 4, 2023

90th Festa Italia to Return to the Custom House Plaza – Monterey State Historic Park in Downtown Monterey on September 8-10, 2023

 90th Festa Italia to Return to the Custom House Plaza – Monterey State Historic Park in Downtown Monterey on September 8-10, 2023


Monterey, CA. July 2023. Don’t miss the award-winning 90th Festa Italia, celebrating Monterey’s Italian heritage and cultural traditions. Join us for this special festival honoring the local fishermen of Monterey, both past and present. This event’s free entertainment line-up, described below, is unrivaled!

This popular family friendly free event shares the sights, sounds, food, and culture that make the Italian experience so special. It is a celebrated festival each year drawing locals and visitors from the Bay Area and beyond. It features three days of authentic Italian cuisine, great music, dancing, fun and friendship. The delicious flavors of Italy are enjoyed by attendees with tasty food offerings (for purchase) including Calamari, Steak and Sausage Sandwiches, Pasta, Arancini, Cannoli and more, as well as wine, beer, sodas, and water. There is also an array of Italian and Festa Italia-themed merchandise as well as vendors selling crafts and clothing. NEW this year will be an array of special 90th Anniversary Festa Italia merchandise.

The first Festa Italia in Monterey was celebrated in 1933 when a statue of Santa Rosalia, the patron saint of Sicilian fishermen, was donated to the San Carlos Cathedral. Sicilian fishermen would pray to their patron saint for a safe journey and bountiful harvest. It is important... more here...

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What: 90th Festa Italia held by the Festa Italia Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization

Festival Entry Cost: Free

Where: 20 Custom House Plaza – Monterey State Historic Park, Downtown Monterey

When: Friday – Sunday, September 8-10, 2023

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Monday, May 29, 2023

Be part of the dream! Support The Italian Californian and help us unify and share the Italian American community of California!




 Be part of the dream! Support The Italian Californian and help us unify and share the Italian American community of California!


While we at The Italian Californian are a small, little-known start-up online magazine, we do have the critical mission and goal of unifying and representing the Italian-American community in Californian. We at The Italian Californian support this endeavor through the selling of advertising space and the support of you, our beloved and respected readers. So please be part of the dream, add your voice and action to our passion, and support this online magazine by donating any amount. We at The Italian Californian can not thank you enough and know that you will find this action exceptionally personally rewarding. Mille grazie!!


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Monday, August 15, 2022

88th Festa Italia to Return to the Custom House Plaza – Monterey State Historic Park in Downtown Monterey on September 9-11, 2022

 88th Festa Italia to Return to the Custom House Plaza – Monterey State Historic Park in Downtown Monterey on September 9-11, 2022


Monterey, CA. April 2022. Save the date for the 88th Festa Italia, celebrating Monterey’s Italian heritage and cultural traditions. Join us for this special festival honoring the local fishermen of Monterey, both past and present.

This popular family friendly free event shares the sights, sounds, food and culture that make the Italian experience so special. It is a celebrated festival each year drawing locals and visitors from the Bay Area and beyond. It features three days of authentic Italian cuisine, great music, dancing, fun and friendship. The delicious flavors of Italy are enjoyed by attendees with tasty food offerings (for purchase) including Calamari, Steak and Sausage Sandwiches, Pasta, Arancini, Cannoli and more, as well as wine, beer, sodas and water. There is also an array of Italian and Festa Italia-themed merchandise as well as vendors selling crafts and more.

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Monday, August 1, 2022

Frequently Asked Questions About Italians in California

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Los Angeles is the 5th metropolitan area in the U.S. with most Italian Americans (after New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago): 568,000 (of a total metro population of 16,373,000).Apr 4, 2016
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Though we often associate Italians in California with San Francisco, the initial Italian settlers established themselves in such diverse communities as Monterey, Stockton, and San Diego during the years of Spanish Rule.Nov 28, 2007
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Italian immigration to California can be seen as occurring in three waves. The first and largest wave, brought about by extreme poverty in the newly unified Italy, took place between 1850 and 1924. Before 1880, however, overseas migration was a relatively uncommon event for Italians.
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Little Italy of Los Angeles is to reside in the downtown district of San Pedro, this waterfront community is home to the largest remaining enclave of Italian Americans in Los Angeles with a history that dates back to over a century.
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Along with most of the original Little Italy, Italian Hall met its demise and sat unused for over 65 years. However, promise of a new day is coming for Italy-lovers in Los Angeles. In 2016, the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, or IAMLA, opened its doors in the historic Italian Hall.
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Though Los Angeles is home to the nation's fifth-largest Italian population today, and the Italian presence in the American West predates the nation's founding, seldom is the city included in dialogs surrounding contemporary or historic Italian American communities.
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According to the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), which opened in 2016 in the Plaza area to tell the history of Italian immigration to southern California, more than 40,000 people of Italian descent live in San Pedro, making it the largest Italian community in the region.Aug 30, 2018
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The first significant wave of Italian immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush. Those who came quickly moved to buy land or work in service industries, rather than stay in the mines. In 1850, there were 229 Italians in San Francisco.May 7, 2007
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Digital History. More Italians have migrated to the United States than any other Europeans. Poverty, overpopulation, and natural disaster all spurred Italian emigration. Beginning in the 1870s, Italian birthrates rose and death rates fell.
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approximately 20,000 people
Today, approximately 20,000 people of Italian heritage live in San Pedro, making it one of the largest Italian communities in Los Angeles.
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Although boroughs like Brooklyn used to be filled with Italian neighborhoods, many people moved out of the area after several manufacturing plants were closed down. The Giglio festival in Williamsburg even had trouble recruiting volunteers this past July. But small as they might be, Italian neighborhoods still exist.Oct 26, 2019
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America is witnessing the vast vanishing of “old country” urban neighborhoods -- perhaps just three Little Italy enclaves still thrive.Oct 13, 2014
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Nationally there were about 5.1% (nearly 16.7 million) Italian Americans in 2017, according to Census data.Oct 14, 2019
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Italian Brazilians are the largest number of people with full or partial Italian ancestry outside Italy, with São Paulo as the most populous city with Italian ancestry in the world.
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Once home to thousands of Italians and Italian-Americans, Little Italy has long since shrunk to a name on a street map and — at most — a three-block stretch of red-sauce joints on Mulberry Street patronized almost entirely by tourists.Feb 19, 2018
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San Diego
San Diego. It seems unlikely, but San Diego's Little Italy is in fact the largest Little Italy in the United States. The hilly neighborhood is built around commercial India Street, where visitors and locals will find plenty of Italian restaurants, bakeries and bars.
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The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy. It still has many Italian restaurants, though many other ethnic groups currently live in the neighborhood.
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Nestled between Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown is a neighborhood known as North Beach. The neighborhood is San Francisco's “Little Italy,” packed with legendary pizzerias, cafes and gelato shops. You'll know it's the right neighborhood when you see light poles painted with the Italian flag!Mar 25, 2019
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Most nations apply jure sanguinis in their nationality laws to certain degrees. Italy is one of the countries where a person can easily be recognized as Italian citizens by having at least one Italian ancestor.Oct 4, 2019
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Italian American Statistics
STATE# OF ITALIAN AMERICANS% OF POP. 1990
Maryland253,2775.3
Colorado156,6074.9
California1,448,4324.8
Louisiana196,9044.7
48 more rows
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Italians Americans usually settled in big cities where jobs were easy to find. “The most popular cities [for Italian Americans to settle] were Boston, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Rhode Island.” Later generations of Italian Americans settled more in South America then in North America.May 12, 2009
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If you're craving a bit of Italian food, culture, language, and hospitality, head to one of the country's best Little Italys. Boston's North End is considered the city's Little Italy neighborhood, and offers a variety of traditional bakeries, restaurants, shops, and nightlife.Jan 19, 2016
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Here are the top 10 “Little Italy's” in North America:
  1. San Diego. California.
  2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
  3. Chicago, Illinois. ...
  4. Manhattan, New York. ...
  5. Boston, Massachusetts. ...
  6. San Francisco, California. ...
  7. Providence, Rhode Island. ...
  8. Toronto, Ontario. ...
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Nov 24, 2014
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Created with Sketch. Little Italy (population 3,000), a neighborhood in San Diego, California, dates back to the early 1900s, when many Italians from Genoa and Sicily were drawn to the area by the climate and the geographical similarity to their homeland.
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Little Italy originally took shape in the 1920s, as Italian fishermen and their families began settling there to be close to the city's tuna industry. For a time, San Diego was known as the "tuna capital" of the entire west coast, and the 6,000 immigrant families populating Little Italy were a huge reason why.Sep 14, 2016
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The North Beach San Francisco neighborhood is a vibrant and colorful district where you will find Coit Tower, Washington Square Park, and dozens of Italian restaurants. The district is often called "Little Italy" and has always had a large concentration of Italian immigrants.Mar 14, 2022
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North Beach has an average violent crime rate and an above average property crime rate for San Francisco.
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Boston, Massachusetts. Love all things Italian? Then head to Little Italy in the North End of Boston. A favorite destination of Italian immigrants in the early and mid-1900s, this historic neighborhood still contains plenty of Italian restaurants, bakeries, and shops—as well as Paul Revere's house.
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Fairfield, New Jersey is the most Italian place in the United States according to the United States Census Bureau, whose latest numbers came out earlier this month. Just more than half of residents —50.3 percent — of its 7,475 residents claim Italian ancestry.
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Louis (particularly The Hill), Chicago, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Youngstown, Erie, Cleveland, Buffalo, Newark, and New York City, which boasts the largest Italian-American population, which live in several concentrated communities in the New York metropolitan area, including the five boroughs, Long Island, and ...
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Los Angeles is the 5th metropolitan area in the U.S. with most Italian Americans (after New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago): 568,000 (of a total metro population of 16,373,000).Apr 4, 2016
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According to the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), which opened in 2016 in the Plaza area to tell the history of Italian immigration to southern California, more than 40,000 people of Italian descent live in San Pedro, making it the largest Italian community in the region.Aug 30, 2018
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Though Los Angeles is home to the nation's fifth-largest Italian population today, and the Italian presence in the American West predates the nation's founding, seldom is the city included in dialogs surrounding contemporary or historic Italian American communities.
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Top 50 U.S. Cities With The Most Italian-Americans
RANKCITYITALIAN POPULATION
1New York, NY1,882,396
2Philadelphia, PA497,721
3Chicago, IL492,158
4Boston, MA485,761
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May 31, 2019
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The first sizable Italian immigration to North America involved certain religious refugees, the Waldensians, who migrated from Holland in 1657. About 167 Waldensians were brought over and settled in New Castle, Delaware, as well as in New Amsterdam.
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Between around 1880 and 1924, more than four million Italians immigrated to the United States, half of them between 1900 and 1910 alone—the majority fleeing grinding rural poverty in Southern Italy and Sicily. Today, Americans of Italian ancestry are the nation's fifth-largest ethnic group.
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A "Little Italy" strives essentially to have a version of the country of Italy placed in the middle of a large non-Italian city. This sort of enclave is often the result of periods of immigration in the past, during which people of the same culture settled together in certain areas.
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The first significant wave of Italian immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush. Those who came quickly moved to buy land or work in service industries, rather than stay in the mines. In 1850, there were 229 Italians in San Francisco.May 7, 2007
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San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood is called "Little Italy, " and it's no wonder.Jun 6, 2019
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Little Italy
Little Italy is a neighborhood in Downtown San Diego, California, that was originally a predominantly Italian and Portuguese fishing neighborhood. It has since been gentrified and is now a popular neighborhood full of Italian restaurants and grocery stores, home design stores, art galleries and residential units.
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Once home to San Diego's flourishing tuna fishing industry and generations of Italian families who made their living on the sea, Little Italy is now a lively neighborhood with cozy patio cafés, international restaurants, craft brew stops, urban wineries, art galleries, sophisticated shops, boutique hotels, and the ...
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This area of San Diego was near our hotel. It has many shops and restaurants. It is highly trafficked so you are safe there.
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Set on a hill top overlooking the San Diego harbor, Little Italy is a walkable neighborhood with delights around every corner. At 48 square blocks, Little Italy San Diego is the largest in the United States with plenty to discover on a walking tour.Jul 25, 2016
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Nestled between Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown is a neighborhood known as North Beach. The neighborhood is San Francisco's “Little Italy,” packed with legendary pizzerias, cafes and gelato shops. You'll know it's the right neighborhood when you see light poles painted with the Italian flag!Mar 25, 2019
Search for: Does SF have a Little Italy?
North Beach is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California with a population of 10,098. North Beach is in San Francisco County and is one of the best places to live in California. Living in North Beach offers residents a dense urban feel and most residents rent their homes.
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Nevertheless, regarding geography and climate, out of all the states, California is considered to be most similar to Italy. Interestingly, several places in California look exactly like Italy including Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Healdsburg, and Castello di Amorosa in Napa Valley!Feb 4, 2022
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Argentina
Italian emigration is concentrated mainly between Europe (55.8%) and America (38.8%). Followed by Oceania (3.2%), Africa (1.3%) and Asia with 0.8%. The country with the most Italians is Argentina (648,333), followed by Germany (631,243), then Switzerland (520,713).
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Once home to thousands of Italians and Italian-Americans, Little Italy has long since shrunk to a name on a street map and — at most — a three-block stretch of red-sauce joints on Mulberry Street patronized almost entirely by tourists.Feb 19, 2018
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Nationally there were about 5.1% (nearly 16.7 million) Italian Americans in 2017, according to Census data.Oct 14, 2019
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Boston, Massachusetts. The North end of Boston first became a 'Little Italy' in the early 1900's, when the Italian people began to inhabit the area which was previously populated by Jewish and Irish Immigrants.Nov 24, 2014
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San Diego
San Diego. It seems unlikely, but San Diego's Little Italy is in fact the largest Little Italy in the United States. The hilly neighborhood is built around commercial India Street, where visitors and locals will find plenty of Italian restaurants, bakeries and bars.
Search for: Where is the largest Little Italy in the United States?
Little Italy of Los Angeles is to reside in the downtown district of San Pedro, this waterfront community is home to the largest remaining enclave of Italian Americans in Los Angeles with a history that dates back to over a century.
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The largest named ancestries in California are Mexican (25%), German (9%), Irish (7.7%), English (7.4%) and Italian(5.8%); there are 65 other ethnicities with sizable populations in California including Arabs, Albanians, Australians, Brazilians, Canadians, Haitians, Iranians/Persians and Somalis as examples.
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Along with most of the original Little Italy, Italian Hall met its demise and sat unused for over 65 years. However, promise of a new day is coming for Italy-lovers in Los Angeles. In 2016, the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, or IAMLA, opened its doors in the historic Italian Hall.
Search for: Why is there no Little Italy in Los Angeles?
Italian American Statistics
STATE# OF ITALIAN AMERICANS% OF POP. 1990
Maryland253,2775.3
Colorado156,6074.9
California1,448,4324.8
Louisiana196,9044.7
48 more rows
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Fairfield, New Jersey is the most Italian place in the United States according to the United States Census Bureau, whose latest numbers came out earlier this month. Just more than half of residents —50.3 percent — of its 7,475 residents claim Italian ancestry.
Search for: Where is the biggest Italian community in USA?
Top 50 U.S. Cities With The Most Italian-Americans
RANKCITYITALIAN POPULATION
1New York, NY1,882,396
2Philadelphia, PA497,721
3Chicago, IL492,158
4Boston, MA485,761
46 more rows
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May 31, 2019
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San Diego's Little Italy is not only a model urban neighborhood for the City of San Diego, but is also serving as a model for the handful of Little Italys remaining throughout the country. "Our business district is rooted in the toil of immigrants and the perseverance and optimism of a new group of business owners.
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After the 1906 earthquake reconstruction, a large number of Italian immigrants created the Italian character of the neighborhood that still exists.
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Created with Sketch. Little Italy (population 3,000), a neighborhood in San Diego, California, dates back to the early 1900s, when many Italians from Genoa and Sicily were drawn to the area by the climate and the geographical similarity to their homeland.
Search for: How many Italians are in San Diego?
If you're craving a bit of Italian food, culture, language, and hospitality, head to one of the country's best Little Italys. Boston's North End is considered the city's Little Italy neighborhood, and offers a variety of traditional bakeries, restaurants, shops, and nightlife.Jan 19, 2016
Search for: What US city has the best Little Italy?
The first significant wave of Italian immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush. Those who came quickly moved to buy land or work in service industries, rather than stay in the mines. In 1850, there were 229 Italians in San Francisco.May 7, 2007
Search for: Why did Italians come to San Francisco?
North Beach San Francisco
The North Beach San Francisco neighborhood is a vibrant and colorful district where you will find Coit Tower, Washington Square Park, and dozens of Italian restaurants. The district is often called "Little Italy" and has always had a large concentration of Italian immigrants.Mar 14, 2022
Search for: What is Little Italy called in San Francisco?
Little Italy originally took shape in the 1920s, as Italian fishermen and their families began settling there to be close to the city's tuna industry. For a time, San Diego was known as the "tuna capital" of the entire west coast, and the 6,000 immigrant families populating Little Italy were a huge reason why.Sep 14, 2016
Search for: Why does San Diego have Little Italy?
A "Little Italy" strives essentially to have a version of the country of Italy placed in the middle of a large non-Italian city. This sort of enclave is often the result of periods of immigration in the past, during which people of the same culture settled together in certain areas.
Search for: Why is it called Little Italy?
Little Italy is a nice section to visit in San Diego. There are an abundance of restaurants and shops. The square was very active even during Covid times with musicians performing. The restaurants were pretty busy but it appeared they were following Covid guidelines.
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