{"id":190703,"date":"2025-09-01T03:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190703\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:42:24","slug":"northwest-omaha-celebrates-la-festa-italiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190703\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Omaha celebrates La Festa Italiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; This Labor Day weekend, most people celebrate it with barbecues and camping, but in Northwest Omaha people celebrate the weekend with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omahaitaly.com\/events-bad\/la-festa-italiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.omahaitaly.com\/events-bad\/la-festa-italiana\/\">La Festa Italiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis is our 41st year,\u201d La Festa Italiana Co-chairman Larry Pence said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event is hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omahaitaly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.omahaitaly.com\/\">American Italian Heritage Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It brings all types of authentic Italian cuisine, live music, and other activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pence said it\u2019s all about keeping the culture alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cA lot of those Italian families have stayed here in Omaha and now it is children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of those original immigrants that stayed in the 1920s,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pence said about 10,000 people have attended La Festa Italiana more than last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As the party continues to shine, he expects the event to grow for the years to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event will go on from 11am to 11pm Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; This Labor Day weekend, most people celebrate it with barbecues and camping, but in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,11875,43548,2961,106623,224,5337,39409,28597,106625,106628,106627,106624,106626],"class_list":{"0":"post-190703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-heritage","11":"tag-italian","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-festa-italiana","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-northwest","17":"tag-omaha","18":"tag-omaha-events","19":"tag-omaha-italian-festival","20":"tag-omaha-la-festa-italiana","21":"tag-omaha-news","22":"tag-omaha-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115126976137184435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190703","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=190703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}