{"id":262359,"date":"2026-08-10T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262359\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:16:13","slug":"st-pauls-italian-fest-celebrates-culture-in-little-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262359\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul&#8217;s Italian fest celebrates culture in Little Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul\u2019s Italian Fest continued through the weekend, bringing culture and heritage center stage in Little Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The festival features all kinds of homemade Italian dishes and desserts, live music and performances, and other activities for the community to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/hundreds-of-corgis-fill-frontier-park-for-annual-festival\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tHundreds of corgis fill Frontier Park for annual festival\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tradition not only brings old neighbors together, but new faces to help celebrate and support each other.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said festivals are a chance for Erie to showcase its diverse mix of cultures and share it with others.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-zoo-hosts-nicu-families-staff-for-annual-reunion\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tErie Zoo hosts NICU families, staff for annual reunion\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cErie is a series of neighborhoods that were all ethnically settled,\u201d said Tim NeCastro, chairman of the St. Paul\u2019s Italian Festival. \u201cCelebrating each of these heritages is really great, and Erie is such a great marketplace because its culture is so rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival wrapped up Sunday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint Paul\u2019s Italian Fest continued through the weekend, bringing culture and heritage center stage in Little Italy. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-262359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}