{"id":20839,"date":"2015-08-02T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T02:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20839"},"modified":"2015-08-02T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T02:11:14","slug":"santa-barbara-spanish-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/santa-barbara-spanish-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Barbara Spanish Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The French Festival has ended\u00a0and the\u00a0Greek Festival completed its two-run on Aug. 2, 2015. Now, the biggest Spanish festival on the Central Coast, a five-day celebration called Old Spanish Days Fiesta<\/a>, launches in Santa Barbara with a fabulous, free La Fiesta Pequena\u00a0(Little Fiesta) on August 5. \u00a0Around sunset colorful spotlights illuminate the front of Old Mission Santa Barbara\u00a0as\u00a0costumed dancers take to the stage to perform\u00a0Flamenco, Spanish classical and Mexican folklorico dances to traditional tunes of the Californios. Events taking place Aug. 5-9, 2015 include a daily mercado with a carnival, shopping, Spanish culinary options and of course, popular mixed drinks for the 21+ crowd. \u00a0Highlights of the festival include\u00a0a parade on State Street, children’s parade, gala at Santa Barbara Zoo,\u00a0Las Noches de Ronda Nights of Gaiety at Santa Barbara Courthouse Sunken Gardens, and a rodeo & horse show at the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The French Festival has ended\u00a0and the\u00a0Greek Festival completed its two-run on Aug. 2, 2015. Now, the biggest Spanish festival on the Central Coast, a five-day celebration called Old Spanish Days Fiesta, launches in Santa Barbara with a fabulous, free La Fiesta Pequena\u00a0(Little Fiesta) on August 5. \u00a0Around sunset colorful spotlights illuminate the front of Old […]<\/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\/20839"}],"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=20839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}