{"id":4288,"date":"2012-02-15T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2012-02-15T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T20:14:21","slug":"san-diego-party-gras-mardi-gras-carnival-and-little-italy-carnevale-are-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/san-diego-party-gras-mardi-gras-carnival-and-little-italy-carnevale-are-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Party Gras – Mardi Gras, Carnival and Little Italy Carnevale are Coming Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You don’t have to travel the globe to experience sizzling Latin sounds or hot Italian romance.\u00a0 Extravagant costumes and musical dance celebrations can be seen this upcoming weekend and next week at San Diego’s Brazil Carnival, Little Italy Carnevale & Gaslamp Mardi Gras.\u00a0 San Diego hosts all three, and it’s your chance to see some of the most beautiful girsl in the world (California Girls) who steal the show in bright costumes made of\u00a0 feathers and sequins. If you’re looking for one city to pull out all the stops for Mardi Gras, San Diego provides the biggest celebrations in the West! Brazilian Carnival (shown in the photo) takes place on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012.<\/p>\n

Brazil Carnival<\/a> <\/strong>on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012 takes place at 4th & B Showcase Theater. Now in its 20th year, this event is a stage show not to be missed! brazilcarnival.com<\/p>\n

Little Italy Carnevale<\/strong> on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012,\u00a0 takes place on India Street (between W. Fir and W. Cedar Streets), with its main stage on W. Date Street.\u00a0 Last year, Carnevale drew over 12,000 attendees with people dressed in traditional Venetian Carnevale regalia. This event mirrors Carnevale in Venice with various vignettes of entertainment and great Italian food!\u00a0 Time: 5 – 9 p.m.\u00a0 littleitalysd.com <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gaslamp Mardi Gras<\/strong><\/a> on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 21, is just one big party. It’s takes up several blocks of Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego which is cordoned off and a fee charged for age 21+ to enter, drink, dance, dine and wander and watch a variety of bands on stages throughout the district. It also includes a Mardi Gras parade.\u00a0 gaslamp.org<\/p>\n

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You don’t have to travel the globe to experience sizzling Latin sounds or hot Italian romance.\u00a0 Extravagant costumes and musical dance celebrations can be seen this upcoming weekend and next week at San Diego’s Brazil Carnival, Little Italy Carnevale & Gaslamp Mardi Gras.\u00a0 San Diego hosts all three, and it’s your chance to see some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"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=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}