12th Annual Italian Street Festival!La Festa Italiana
Sunday, June 20th
11:30am - 5:30pm
Free!
Join Fieri DC, the Italian Cultural Society and the Holy Rosary Church as downtown Washington comes alive for the city's lively 12th annual Italian street festival. La Festa Italiana brings Italian cuisine, music and gusto to D.C.’s original "Little Italy" neighborhood. Enjoy some of Washington's most authentic, best-ever mix of Italian food, entertainment and lively atmosphere. This year's festival will include live traditional Italian music, informative displays about one of Italy's regions, Molise, chef demonstrations, raffles, and more. Italy’s hottest cars will also be on display including Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Maseratis and there will also be performances from the colorful, spectacularly choreographed medieval troupe directly from Italy, Mastrogiurato.
Holy Rosary Church
595 3rd St, NW
Metro: Judiciary Square
The festival was tiny! There were very few vendors, not a lot of food, lines were long, you had to purchase tickets for some food and pay cash for others. The "parade" was 3 minutes long. Overall it was highly disappointing and I will not be going next year.
ReplyDeleteI had a great time. The food lines were long but well worth the wait. I highly recommend the pizza-- which was homemade by the Italian ladies of the Holy Rosary Church.
ReplyDeleteSome of the other food options included a roasted pig (porchetta), sausage and peppers, homemade pasta and sauce (they had someone actually making the pasta on site with a machine), fresh baked bread (this was in a brick oven on site), gelato, cannoli's, and my favorite-- sfogliatella.
The parade was very colorful with a group of flag throwers and drummers from Lanciano Italy.
They also had a few Ferrari's on display. The music was pretty good and an opera singer (marco fiorante-- from italy) stole the show with his singing of Figaro (absolutely beautiful voice).
The festival may have been small, but it was jam packed with Italian culture, food, and paesans.