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Each year in early August\u00a0Old Spanish Days Fiesta<\/a>\u00a0in Santa Barbara celebrates the city’s rich cultural heritage seen\u00a0in its architecturally-unique historic buildings, paseos, and the Queen of the California missions, Mission Santa Barbara<\/a>. Fiestas in the Spanish and Mexican tradition have always been closely connected with church celebrations so historic Old Mission Santa Barbara hosted a sunset service for the festival 90 years ago.\u00a0A\u00a0procession along the Mission Corridor up to the steps of the mission has opened\u00a0the festival\u00a0program since 1927 with an event\u00a0called Fiesta Pequena, or Little Fiesta.<\/p>\n Santa Barbara ranks among travelers’ favorite beach destinations. But for something really different (and special) this week’s celebration focuses on the historic roots of a\u00a0city which incorporated five months before California was admitted to the Union in\u00a01850. Santa Barbara was the 6th city to incorporate shortly after Sacramento, Benicia, San Diego, San Jose and Los Angeles became cities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each year in early August\u00a0Old Spanish Days Fiesta\u00a0in Santa Barbara celebrates the city’s rich cultural heritage seen\u00a0in its architecturally-unique historic buildings, paseos, and the Queen of the California missions, Mission Santa Barbara. Fiestas in the Spanish and Mexican tradition have always been closely connected with church celebrations so historic Old Mission Santa Barbara hosted a […]<\/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\/22963"}],"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=22963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}