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Each September people come together on Point Loma to celebrate\u00a0the\u00a0arrival of Portuguese sailor\/explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and his discovery of San Diego on September 28, 1542 under the flag of Spain. At the \u00a0Cabrillo Festival<\/a>\u00a0a re-enactor climbs out\u00a0of his ship\u00a0and onto shore, just like Juan Cabrillo stepped into history as the first European to set foot on the West Coast of what is now the U.S. \u00a0“Cabrillo,” his soldiers and a priest sail into the bay on San Salvador (The Californian), and once again claim the land for Spain.<\/p>\n The free admission festival with dancing, music, speeches, vendors, costumes, and some great food you can buy (such as paealla)\u00a0\u00a0takes place on September 27-28, 2014. It is\u00a0one of many annual events at Cabrillo National Monument<\/a>, which was established in 1913 and turned 100 in 2013.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each September people come together on Point Loma to celebrate\u00a0the\u00a0arrival of Portuguese sailor\/explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and his discovery of San Diego on September 28, 1542 under the flag of Spain. At the \u00a0Cabrillo Festival\u00a0a re-enactor climbs out\u00a0of his ship\u00a0and onto shore, just like Juan Cabrillo stepped into history as the first European to set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}