{"id":175055,"date":"2025-08-25T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175055\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:10:15","slug":"san-antonio-kicks-off-fiestas-patrias-2025-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/175055\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio kicks off Fiestas Patrias 2025 celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a party Monday morning in downtown San Antonio for the announcement of Fiestas Patrias and Hispanic Heritage Month.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The City of San Antonio&#8217;s Department of Arts and Culture and Diez y Seis de Septiembre Commission are hosting the Fiestas Patrias and Hispanic Heritage Month 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The month-long series of events kicked off with an opening ceremony on Monday in Historic Market Square, including a special performance by the Guadalupe Dance Company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sa.gov\/Directory\/Departments\/Arts\/Initiatives-Programs\/Fiestas-Patrias\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fiestas Patrias San Antonio<\/a> is the annual celebration of Diecis\u00e9is de Septiembre and Hispanic Heritage Month featuring a series of festivities commemorating Mexico\u2019s independence from Spain in 1810 and honoring San Antonio\u2019s strong connection to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsanantonio.com\/san-antonio-culture\/hispanic-heritage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a> runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 and is a chance to celebrate the contributions, accomplishments, and influences of Hispanic and Latin Americans with over 40 events, authentic cuisine, and vibrant cultural experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The event honors the incredible achievements and contributions of people whose cultures and heritages originate from Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights include a river parade in honor of Diecis\u00e9is de Septiembre, a salsa cookoff and a Mariachi festival. It also includes other festivals, music performances, children&#8217;s events and even a pinata-making demonstration. There is something for every member of the family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.getcreativesanantonio.com\/event\/?keyword&amp;start_date&amp;end_date&amp;date_format=m-d-Y&amp;term=1174&amp;event_location&amp;save_lst_list&amp;view&amp;min_lat&amp;min_lng&amp;max_lat&amp;max_lng\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full list of events.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a party Monday morning in downtown San Antonio for the announcement of Fiestas Patrias and Hispanic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-175055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115090988961998401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}