{"id":282178,"date":"2026-09-09T12:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282178\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:08:16","slug":"la-festa-italiana-reaches-50-years-of-celebrating-italian-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282178\/","title":{"rendered":"La Festa Italiana reaches 50 years of celebrating Italian heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Festa Italiana draws more than 100,000 visitors per year.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 La Festa Italiana in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> is celebrating a major milestone, 50 years of celebrating Italian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1976, the festival has grown into one of the region&#8217;s most anticipated events of the year. The celebration began with the annual Italian Mass at St. Peter&#8217;s Cathedral on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 100,000 visitors per year, \u00a0La Festa is still going strong half a century later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh! It&#8217;s just coming together and praying, and of course, the music is wonderful, it kind of just goes right to your heart,&#8221; said La Festa president &amp; chairman Chris DiMattio.<\/p>\n<p>La Festa runs tonight until 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the last day of the festival tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. here along Courthouse Square in Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Festa Italiana draws more than 100,000 visitors per year. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 La Festa Italiana in downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-282178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282178","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=282178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}