{"id":495108,"date":"2026-10-13T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495108\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:28:08","slug":"san-pedro-celebrates-italian-american-heritage-month-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495108\/","title":{"rendered":"San Pedro celebrates Italian American Heritage Month \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Pedro kicked off Italian American Heritage Month<\/a> this weekend with activities on Saturday, Oct. 10, that opened with a daylong festival, \u201cFesta Italian,\u201d in downtown.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, the opening celebration featured food, live music and other entertainment from Italy, including a Ferrari exhibit.<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Keelan Harris, with his wife Alison, wears his colors to San Pedro\u2019s \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d to celebrate Italian-American Heritage Month in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. Harris\u2019 brother-in-law just returned from a trip to Italy and brought home a souvenir t-shirt which matches his tattoo. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

\"Keelan<\/p>\n

Keelan Harris, with his wife Alison, wears his colors to San Pedro\u2019s \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d to celebrate Italian-American Heritage Month in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. Harris\u2019 brother-in-law just returned from a trip to Italy and brought home a souvenir t-shirt. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Former Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaiano hangs out with friends in the beer garden of San Pedro\u2019s \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d to celebrate Italian -American Heritage Month in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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San Pedro kicks off Italian American Heritage Month with a \u201cFesta Italiana,\u201d sponsored by the Little Italy of Los Angeles Association, in the historic downtown\/waterfront shopping district on Saturday October 10, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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There were also flyovers, cultural vendors and family programming that ran throughout the day.<\/p>\n

San Pedro\u2019s Little Italy district was established in 2018, recognizing the many Italians who have immigrated to the port town, where the fishing industry once dominated.<\/p>\n

Former Los Angeles Councilmember Joe Buscaino led the effort to establish the Little Italy district to recognize and celebrate those who settled and remain here after many generations.<\/p>\n

A new feature of the district \u2014 Piazza Miramare plaza<\/a>, 629 S. Harbor Blvd. \u2014 opened to the public in January.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles City Council declared a section of San Pedro as \u201cLittle Italy\u201d in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Pedro kicked off Italian American Heritage Month this weekend with activities on Saturday, Oct. 10, that opened…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,179,3172,2646,131,133,132,47,137,100,1439],"class_list":["post-495108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-community","tag-harbor-area","tag-holidays","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-san-pedro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}