{"id":5452,"date":"2012-04-30T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:54:56","slug":"california-loves-italian-festival-festa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-loves-italian-festival-festa\/","title":{"rendered":"California Loves Italians&#8230;Celebrate with a Festival or Festa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sdsici.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: San Diego Sicilian Festival<\/p>\n<p>There are thousands of Italian restaurants serving up pastas and pleasure. Chased down with a fine Italian wine, what could be better? How about an Italian festa celebrating Italy&#8217;s culture with dancing, Italian songs, and of course&#8211;the FOOD!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey, mambo by Rosemary Clooney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A girl went back to Napoli<br \/>\nBecause she missed the scenery<br \/>\nThe native dances and the charming songs<br \/>\nBut wait a minute, something&#8217;s wrong<br \/>\nHey, mambo! Mambo italiano!<br \/>\nHey, mambo! Mambo italiano<br \/>\nGo, go, go you mixed up sicialiano<br \/>\nAll you calabraise-a do the mambo like a crazy with a<br \/>\nHey mambo, don&#8217;t wanna tarantella<br \/>\nHey mambo, no more a mozzarella<br \/>\nHey mambo! Mambo italiano!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are few California Italian Festivals to look forward to in 2012:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GRASS VALLEY Italian Festival September 15 &amp; 16, 2012, \u00a0 nevadacountyitalianfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>LAGUNA NIGUEL\u00a0 La Dolce Vita Italian Festival\u00a0 October 6-7, 2012\u00a0 ladolcevitafestival.com<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES\u00a0 Feast of San Gennaro September 28 &#8211; 30, 2012,\u00a0 feastofla.org<\/li>\n<li>REDDING Paesano Days\u00a0 August 3 &#8211; 4, 2012,\u00a0 reddingsonsofitaly.com<\/li>\n<li>RANCHO MIRAGE Coachella Valley Italian Festival November 3, 2012 desertarc.org<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO\u00a0 Festa Italiana\u00a0 August 4-5, 2012, italiancenter.net<\/li>\n<li>SAINT HELENA\u00a0 Festa Italiana July 28, 2012, vsattui.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-little-italy-festa.html\">Little Italy Festiva<\/a>l October 14, 2012\u00a0 littleitalysd.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-sicilian-festival.html\">Sicilian Festival<\/a> May 20, 2012,\u00a0 sicilianfestival.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO Festa Coloniale Italiana\u00a0\u00a0August 11, 2012\u00a0 sfiacfesta.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE\u00a0 Italian-American Family Festa\u00a0August 25 -26, 2012,\u00a0 iahfsj.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO\u00a0 Ferragosto August 11, 2012, sjcferragosto.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: San Diego Sicilian Festival There are thousands of Italian restaurants serving up pastas and pleasure. Chased down with a fine Italian wine, what could be better? How about an Italian festa celebrating Italy&#8217;s culture with dancing, Italian songs, and of course&#8211;the FOOD! Hey, mambo by Rosemary Clooney A girl went back to Napoli Because [&hellip;]<\/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\/5452"}],"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=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}